Solved WD My Passport Ultra does not mount on my mac or windows laptop solved how to format my WD My Passport for Mac on to windows 8.1 solved WD Passport External HD reads on Mac but not Windows. How to install/use Wester Digital my Passport for mac and pc windows, Western Digital 100gb 200gb 300gb 400gb 500gb 1tb, 2tb, 3tb, 4tb, 5tb, 6tb 7tb 8tb 9b 1. Skip navigation Sign in.
If you want to transfer files from a Mac to Windows PC and vice versa using an external portable hard drive then you have to have the external drive formatted in a file system both OS's can read and write too. Your choice is ms-dos (aka fat32) or exfat and I go over the difference in the video. Note: most external drives you buy will automatically be formatted in NTFS which is a Windows file system. Macs can only read but not write to a ntfs file system. So if you want your external hard drive to be backward compatible with both OS's then you need to reformat it with fat32 or exfat. Please like, sub, share if you find this video helpful! FACEBOOK: INSTAGRAM: TWITTER: MY WEBSITE.
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Ok, maybe i’m not understanding, but i’m still a bit confused. My Passport is already formatted for Macs. From what i’m understanding the NTFS is made to make Passports that are formatted for PCs useable on Macs.
I don’t need that. I need something that i can download on a PC to make my Passport work on a PC. Is there a NTFS program that i can download on a PC to format it? Or is the FAT32 program made so i can download it on a PC to format my Passport to be PC useable? I hope i’m being clear, if not i’m sorry.
Like I said, computers aren’t my thing. Thanks for your help again.