“Is this drive pre-formatted for a Mac? I'm on a MacBook Pro. If it needs to be formatted, what will that entail? Thanks in advance.”

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• Hi HCB, The WD My Passport drive is a plug and play device which comes preformatted in NTFS file system for Windows computer. It is best your WD My passport to be re-formatted in macOS Extended (Journaled) file format, to be compatible with Time Machine or exFAT to be read/write ready on both Windows and macOS. How to Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS": https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8200 Need Help? Please visit our "'Contact Us" page.

  Answered by Western Digital Team 5 years ago

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