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MY PASSPORT AIR

USER MANUAL

USING THE DRIVE WITH WINDOWS – 28

Using the Drive with Windows

The My Passport 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 http://support.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base answer ID 3865 for

information about reformatting the drive.

See “Troubleshooting” on page 29 for more information about reformatting a drive.

Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image

After you have reformatted your My Passport drive for use on Windows computers, go to

http://support.wdc.com 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 Passport 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.