Who was the one who bought a WD passport 160GB...

[showtime]

Did you have to reformat the drive before sticking it in or can you just stick it in, boot of the os x cds and just format from there?

 

[heySparky]

Did you have to reformat the drive before sticking it in or can you just stick it in, boot of the os x cds and just format from there?

New drives do need to be formatted, and you can do that by booting from the OS X CD (or DVD) and using Disc Utility.

 

[djellison]

I learnt the hard way - which wasn't even slightly hard.

I'd had my Macbook for a week - a new switcher... dropped the 160 straight in ( so easy it was funny ) - turned it back on - whacked the cd that came with the machine in the drive - and it booted up into a very OSX looking install package for OSX - said it couldn't put it on that drive - so I just went "hmm - format - partitioning - where's that" - can't remember now but it was SO easy via the disk utility.

Then it installed away - asked if I wanted to copy stuff from an old drive...plugged the Passport drive (with old system disk in it ) in - OSX pulled everything off it - and I was back up and running in an hour.

Took me two days to switch to a new WinTel desktop machine at work. Grrr/

Doug

 

[rockstarjoe]

Have you guys seen this? Western Digital just released a new Passport with a 250GB drive! I think I'm going to throw this into my Macbook if the price is right. Great thread by the way, thanks for all the info everyone.

 

[XStylus]

Has anyone experienced problems with OSX's Sudden Motion Sensor conflicting with the WD drive's own anti-shock function? I've seen a lot of reports of Macbook machines with WD drives causing Kernel Panics whenever moved, but the problem went away when SMS was disabled.

Also, for those of you hunting for the new 250gb passport, I've heard that Best Buy will have them in stock soon for $199. If you decide to go hunting online for a deal, for your reference the wholesale price on them is $140, so try to find a price as close to that as possible.

Oh, and if anyone feels like taking the initiative in posting disassembly instructions and pictures, I'd be most appreciative. I plan to take apart one of these fellas myself.

 

[TilJ]

wait, does the western digital passport work with the macbook via 1 usb port without external power cord?? I read it doesnt. Id also be interested in switching my hdd in my laptop too. I wanted to buy an external hdd, but if i could just keep the larger one in my laptop, thatd be much easier

I'm really interested in that too. I bought a passport a few months ago and my Pwoerbook couldn't power it