Format Western Digital Passport For Mac High Quality

We listed the comparison table for file system format. That is to say, only FAT32 and exFAT can work on both Mac and PC. If you want to share digital files between Mac and Windows system easily, you must format WD My Passport for Mac. Here are three ways to format a WD My Passport for Mac, follow any one of them to convert to FAT or exFAT.

Format Western Digital Passport For Mac

Tips: The instructions below are designed to help repartition and format a hard drive. Once the process begins, all the data on the drive will be lost! Ready to learn how to format my passport for Mac or how to reformat my passport for Mac.

Due to different needs, some WD My passport drives come pre-formatted in the NTFS (short for New Technology File System and read-only on Mac by default) format while others are formatted with Mac-compatible file systems. Thus, you may encounter such a scenario where the NTFS-formatted WD My Passport drive is mounted in read-only mode when being connected to your Mac machine, and you will not be able to write any files to it.