“I just bought a new MacBook Pro running OS Catalina 10.15.5. Will this hard drive run function with that operating system?”

This question is for: WD - My Book 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black

Asked by OS 5 years ago

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The drive is factory formated to Windows NTFS. You may need to format it with your computers macOS disk utility program to make it fully compatible with your system (read/write). If your intention is to use it for cross platform (mac/windows) storage, you will need to have it formated to fat32. If you format to macOS you wont be able to right files to it from the Windows platform. If you leave it formated to NTFS you wont be able to right macOS files to it. The drive is enormous so ideally you can partition it with macOS disk utility and have 3 partitions (macOS, fat32 & NTFS) one of each.
Answered by Doc762 5 years ago
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Hi OS, The WD My Book portable hard drive comes preformatted for Windows computer. The hard drive can be reformatted in the supported file system for Mac OS by following simple steps mentioned in the link mentioned below: Reformatting Required for Mac OS Compatibility: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3879 Need Help? Please see our "'Contact Us" page for information
Answered by Western Digital Team 5 years ago
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