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USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC COMPUTER – 35
Using the Drive with a Mac Computer
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The drive is formatted as a single NTFS partition for compatibility with updated Windows
operating systems. To use it on Mac OS X operating systems, and to use Time Machine,
if you want, you must reformat the drive to a single HFS+J 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 39 for more information about reformatting a drive.
Restoring the WD Software and Disk Image
After you have reformatted your drive for use on Mac computers, go to
http://support.wdc.com and see Knowledge Base Answer ID 7 for information about
downloading and restoring the Mac version of the WD Apps software and disk image.
The WD Backup software is not available for Mac computers.
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.