WD Portable Hard Drive Reformat Help

[Kerrlos]

Hi all,

I have a WD Passport Portable hard drive which I use as a Time Machine for my iMac. I'm close to filling it up and I will be getting a bigger hard drive for it.

I would like to use my WD hard drive again on my daughters PC so she can save her school work. I know it needs to be re-formatted to work with a PC again but I dont know how to do it.

Any help will be great, thank you in advance.

 

[Bennieboy©]

open disk utility and select the disk then select MS Fat from the drop down box

 

[Kerrlos]

open disk utility and select the disk then select MS Fat from the drop down box

Thank you, I knew it would be simple but if you dont know you dont know lol.

Cheers.

 

[Bennieboy©]

lol no worries

 

[Shownarou]

Once connecting it to your daughters pc, I would recommend formatting the drive again to NTFS.

Win XP Instructions : http://www.ehow.com/how_4768949_external-hard-drive-windows-xp.html

Win Vista instructions : http://www.ehow.com/how_4434841_format-hard-drive-windows-vista.html

NTFS is just a better format to run in Windows. But it's completely incompatible with a Mac without third party software.