But as you know, directly formatting WD Elements or My Passport on Mac causes data loss. We provide a downloadable HFS+ driver for Windows® 10, 8.1 or 7 to enable you to read and write to your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive without reformatting.Īfter having confirmed that the WD My Passport is formatted with NTFS, many people will choose to convert NTFS to APFS (for macOS Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra) or reformat the WD My Passport hard drive to make the WD external hard drive compatible with Mac. With WD Discovery™ software, you can also work across both Mac and PC. My Passport Ultra for Mac is formatted for Time Machine and ready to deliver plug-and-play storage out of the box.
But I only got “Windows was unable to complete the format” when I tried to format it form Windows Explorer.
Unable to format WD Passport external hard drive “Having a 1TB WD Passport external hard drive with RAW file system, I want to format it to exFAT for using in Mac and Windows computer.
