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My Passport is one of the external storage product lines produced. On a PC, the application is listed as 'WD SmartWare.exe,' and on a Mac it is listed as 'WD. Select 'Install' and accept the 'End User License Agreement' when prompted. How to install/use Wester Digital my Passport for mac and pc windows, Western Digital 100gb 200gb 300gb 400gb 500gb 1tb, 2tb, 3tb, 4tb, 5tb, 6tb 7tb 8tb 9b 10tb 20tb, 40gb 50gb 60gb 70gb 80gb 90gb.
Click to expand.First. Don't install any software from WD. You don't need it. Attach the drive and launch Disk Utility. Then select this checkbox option I have shown. Now select the drive itself on the left side.
Mine says asmedia. Your will be WD something or other. Make sure you pick the drive just like in my screenshot and not any of the partitions below it. Now click the erase button and set it up like my screenshot. Put whatever you want for name then click erase. This will give you a freshly formatted drive suitable for Time Machine backups.
Don't install any software from WD. You don't need it. Attach the drive and launch Disk Utility. Then select this checkbox option I have shown. Now select the drive itself on the left side. Mine says asmedia. Your will be WD something or other.
Make sure you pick the drive just like in my screenshot and not any of the partitions below it. Now click the erase button and set it up like my screenshot.
Put whatever you want for name then click erase. This will give you a freshly formatted drive suitable for Time Machine backups. I have at least a dozen backup USB drives with capacity up to 2 TB, I rotate them to backup 5 different Macs. I have never used the mfgr software - just plug it in and wipe it with disk utility. Often they come formatted NTFS ('mac' versions cost more for same drive but Mac format). I haven't had any problems with them - I use superduper to just do bootable image backups as I don't need the Time Machine style updates. The latest disk utility made it harder to set it up, but not a big deal.
Once setup and split into several logical volumes, they have worked perfectly. Don't install any software from WD. You don't need it. Attach the drive and launch Disk Utility. Then select this checkbox option I have shown.
Now select the drive itself on the left side. Mine says asmedia. Your will be WD something or other. Make sure you pick the drive just like in my screenshot and not any of the partitions below it. Now click the erase button and set it up like my screenshot. Put whatever you want for name then click erase. This will give you a freshly formatted drive suitable for Time Machine backups.