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I originally tried to reformat it with two partitions using Apple's Disk Utility. Usually, the first thing I do when I get a new hard drive is reformat it to use the Mac OSs journaled HFS+ file format. I had all sorts of problems and the instructions that came with the drive seemed to suggest that the drive would not support multiple partitions.

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So I reformatted it with a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition using Apple's Disk Utility. #Do i need to format my passport ultra mac os I only use this drive for backups and only connect it to my MacBook Pro (early 2013) running OS 10.8.5 once every day or two. #Do i need to format my passport ultra pro 9:06 AM in response to A1-TeamD Open Disk Utility Click on the View button and choose 'Show all Devices' You should see your WD Passport listed in the list, likely with some volume name indented below it.

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Looking for free Western Digital FAT32 formatting tool to format WD My Passport Ultra or other external hard drives to FAT32 so that you can use it in both Windows 7 and Mac Find answer here. I decided to use this new external drive for Time Machine backups only. #Do i need to format my passport ultra for free Select the drive in the list (leftmost entry for the drive). Then I discovered that every day I plugged it into the computer the backup would start but not complete. After trying many things I used Apple's disk utility to verify and repair the drive. It found various problems but was unable to correct them so I was required to reformat the drive and start from scratch with Time Machine. After the third time doing this Disk Utility couldn't even repair the disk anymore because it 'Could not dismount the disk'. I was ready to declare the disk defective when I found your post. I then used the WD Drive Utilities.app furnished with the drive. It was able to reformat the drive with HFS+J format. Since then the drive has been working great for several days now. When you plug the Ultra into your PC, it will appear as two drives. The strange thing is that now when I use the WD disk utility to test/verify the disk it fails the tests but gives me no feedback as to why.

One will be the unlocker software, and that partition appears as a read-only CD drive. The other is the main partition, which is the one that you will be formatting to exFat.

#Do i need to format my passport ultra softwareДЄll of the supplied optional software (quickview, smartware etc) is on that second partition, but it is.

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