Using the drive with windows, Reformatting the drive, Restoring the wd software and disk image – Western Digital My Book for Mac (USB 3.0) User Manual User Manual
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MY BOOK FOR MAC
USER MANUAL
USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS
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Using the Drive with Windows
The My Book drive is formatted as a single HFS+J partition for compatibility with Mac
OS X operating systems. To use the drive on Windows computers, you must reformat it
to a single NTFS partition.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Reformatting the Drive
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
Reformatting the Drive
Go to
nd refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for
information about reformatting the drive.
See “Troubleshooting” on page 28 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your My Book drive for use on Windows computers, go to
and see Knowledge Base answer ID 7 for information about
downloading and restoring the Windows versions of the WD Drive Utilities and
WD Security software and disk image on your My Book drive.
CAUTION! Reformatting the drive erases all its contents. If you have already
saved files on the drive, be sure to back them up before reformatting it.
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