Question: Q: Why does my WD Passport work on my Mac but Not on my PC? So i just bought a MacBook Pro and I have been a PC user forever. Photoshop elements for mac free download. This is my 1st time owning a Mac and Im not sure if this is my bad or an issue with the hard drive.

• • My Passport Ultra for Mac Official Product Overview Expand the storage on your Mac and back up photos, video, music, and documents using the My Passport Ultra USB 3.0 Type-C External Hard Drive from WD. This drive is equipped with 4TB of storage and a USB 3.0 Type-C interface.

If your Mac doesn't have a USB Type-C port, an included USB Type-C to Type-A adapter helps ensure compatibility with older systems. This drive is also bus-powered, meaning that all its power is provided by the USB cable and no external power cables or adapters are required. Since WD designed this My Passport Ultra drive for Mac, it comes preformatted HFS+ for macOS High Sierra, Sierra, and El Capitan.

If you happen to work across both Windows and Mac platforms, WD provides a downloadable HFS+ driver for Windows, which enables the reading and writing of this My Passport Ultra drive without any reformatting. Or, make it fully Windows compatible with a simple reformat. Thanks to a 256-bit AES hardware encryption chip, your private files are kept more secure. General Features USB 3.0 Type-C (USB 3.1 Gen 1) WD's My Passport Ultra for Mac delivers quick and easy storage with its 5 Gb/s USB 3.0 Type-C port, while the included USB 3.0 Type-C to Type-A adapter helps ensure compatibility with older machines. USB 3.0 is also known as USB 3.1 Gen 1.

Password Protection with 256-Bit AES Hardware Encryption Help keep your private files private with a password of your choosing with WD Security tools to enable the 256-bit AES hardware encryption chip on your My Passport Ultra for Mac. Style & Function Fusing modern anodized metal and textures, the My Passport Ultra for Mac matches your personal style and the latest Mac computers.

Do More with WD Discovery Included WD Discovery software connects to popular social media and cloud storage services to help preserve your online life. If you work across both Mac and Windows, WD provides a downloadable HFS+ driver for compatible Windows OS to enable you to read and write to your My Passport Ultra drive without the need for reformatting. WD Discovery software can also be used to manage your drive with WD Drive Utilities.

Mac Ready Formatted for Mac and ready for Time Machine, WD's My Passport Ultra delivers plug-and-play storage out of the box so you can back up your photos, videos, or business documents with one click. Storage Capacity 4 TB Connection Interface 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB Type-C) Pre-Format HFS+ Encryption 256-Bit AES Internal Interface SATA (Unspecified) Type Hard Disk Drive Form Factor 2.5' Security Features None Bus Power USB Material Steel Cooling System Passive Operating Temperature 41 to 95°F / 5 to 35°C Storage Temperature -4 to 149°F / -20 to 65°C Dimensions (L x W x H) 4.3 x 3.2 x 0.8' / 110.0 x 81.5 x 21.1 mm Weight 0.5 lb / 0.2 kg Package Weight 1.0 lb Box Dimensions (LxWxH) 6.0 x 4.0 x 1.6'.

If you are really, really want to do that you need to read these first: • The up side: you can read and write to it from Mac and PC. • The down side: the files size is limited to less than 4GB each. Meaning if you try to copy a file size bigger than 4GB it will give you an error or not work. You can not use Time machine with the drive. Ao rated games for mac.

If you allow Time Machine to configure the drive, all of your data will not be read or write from PC. If you have decided to go for it, You must back up all of the data to either your PC or MAC internal hard disk drive. Formatting the drive will erase all data. After you have done backing up, connect the Passport drive to your Mac computer.

Bring up the Disk Utility, Select the Passport drive, Select Partition, Under Volume Scheme choose 1 partition, Under Options, choose Master Boot Record and hit OK, Under Format, choose MS-DOS (FAT), then hit Apply to format the drive. After that the Passport drive is formatted and it is able to read and write from Mac and PC. If you right click on the drive (in Mac OS X) then click ‘Get info’; the 'Sharing & Permissions’ caption states It will show read and write.