Win 7 to mac lion Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)So i just bought an MBP 13in for college and was wondering can i transfer my files from my win 7 desktop to my MBP. I kno that u can reformat it to work with both system, but i want to kno do u lose ur datas on it after u reformat it? Also if u reformat it do u have limits on how big the file can be? I have about alot of HD movies,musics,etc around 800GB. Win 7 to mac lion Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)So i just bought an MBP 13in for college and was wondering can i... » Read More Win 7 to mac lion Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0/2.0 Ultra Portable External Hard Drive (Black)So i just bought an MBP 13in for college and was wondering can i transfer my files from my win 7 desktop to my MBP. I kno that u can reformat it to work with both system, but i want to kno do u lose ur datas on it after u reformat it? Also if u reformat it do u have limits on how big the file can be? I have about alot of HD movies,musics,etc around 800GB. « Show Less
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I also ended up using FAT32; I haven't seen any downside if you want to just store files... except the maximum file size. I don't know of any cross-platform format that has no file size limit, so my advice is FAT32 with the hope somebody else here knows of a better one! :)P.S: I have this exact product, and after a a few different attempts I found FAT32 to work for using it to move stuff from my windows 7 desktop to snow leopard macbook pro
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If you reformat the drive you'll erase all the present data on it. If it's a brand new drive, just format it for FAT32 and both -Win7 and OS X- can read it.As to the file size limit, there is none.
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Yes this drive will work on Windows 7. You can format the drive to FAT32 to work on windows & mac.
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What I've read on the Internet, if you reformat it, you can. The programs that are on it are of no use to Mac user. You might check with the software co., itself:Customer SupportNTI Corporationhttp://www.NTICorp.comClick here for contact information or call (949)421-0720 from 9AM to 6PM Pacific Timeand see if they have anything for the Apple stuff, but I doubt, never hurt to try, though. Anyway, this drive comes already formatted for Windows NTFS. The included works great with Windows XP. It doesn't seem to agree with Windows 7 but you can back your Windows 7 with the software that is part of Windows 7, with no problem.Hopefully, I answered several questions. What I've read on the Internet, if you reformat it, you can. The programs that are on it are of no use to Mac user. You might check with the software co., itself:Customer SupportNTI Corporationhttp://www.NTICorp.comClick here for contact information or call (949)421-0720 from 9AM to 6PM Pacific Timeand see if they have anything for the Apple stuff, but I doubt, never hurt to try, though. Anyway, this drive comes already formatted for Windows NTFS. The included works great with Windows XP. It doesn't seem to agree with Windows 7 but you can back your... » Read More What I've read on the Internet, if you reformat it, you can. The programs that are on it are of no use to Mac user. You might check with the software co., itself:Customer SupportNTI Corporationhttp://www.NTICorp.comClick here for contact information or call (949)421-0720 from 9AM to 6PM Pacific Timeand see if they have anything for the Apple stuff, but I doubt, never hurt to try, though. Anyway, this drive comes already formatted for Windows NTFS. The included works great with Windows XP. It doesn't seem to agree with Windows 7 but you can back your Windows 7 with the software that is part of Windows 7, with no problem.Hopefully, I answered several questions. « Show Less
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Well, I have a 250GB disk inside, formatted as exFAT. I use at home with my Win7 machine and at work with a MacBook (Mountain Lion) and both systems can read and write with not problems at all. If you are going to use only mac you can format it with Mac OS Extended, if you want both systems to use it then go for exFAT. Short answer: YES, it does support Mac.
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Can't help with any specific advice as I am using my drive with a Mac, but I can't see why there would be a problem. If you received a drive pre-formatted for a Macintosh, then doubtless, you need to use a Windows program to reformat it. Good Luck!
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I am a Windows user and the Canvio does NOT require a format to work with Windows systems. I have no experience with Apple products. A folder that is factory installed on the Canvio named Mac Driver includes a PDF with Mac instructions: English Tuxera NTFS for Mac The Toshiba Canvio External Hard Drive is formatted with NTFS and can be read and written on Windows PCs. Mac OS X can read data from this drive with no additional software. However, Mac OS X does not support writing to NTFS out of the box. In order to allow both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows to write to the drive, Toshiba has included Tuxera NTFS for Mac with this product. Tuxera NTFS for Mac should be installed on your Mac if required. http://www.tuxera.com/mac/onlinehelp/ MRBILLM
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I am looking for a back up drive and something I can use to transfer my Itunes and pics/videos from my PC to my Macbook. Is this the product I need to do both? Thanks for your help!
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You have two internal hard drives? Not many computers have that. It wouldn't be possible to say which is the quickest without knowing the transfer speeds of both drives. It may not be a significant difference anyways. The edge the external drive would have is that you can easily and quickly remove it and connect it to another computer if something catastrophic happened to your computer. Another thing- as far as I can tell there was no backup software included for the Passport so you'll need to rely on your computer's backup software. That's probably not a factor. In the end it's probably apples and oranges whether you go with an internal or external drive. Personally, I prefer the portability of an external drive. Good luck with your purchase.
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you have to go in to the utility of the drive an you'll see a box for formatting the drive to use for mac. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq6-KQ3o2uk this is a good place to start and you can find more it you look up on the internet how to set up "WD My Book Hard Drive for Mac 2..."
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No.. There isn't. You can actually format it to EXT2 partition and use it on both. You could also format it as NTFS and install the NTFS drivers on your MBP and use it on both.
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Yes, I have a black version with my Macbook Pro. Before you use it, you have to format the drive using disk utility on your mac. Format the drive as ExFat file system and it works perfectly.
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Yes you can. To properly use it in this manner, you need to create re-partition the drive into two partitions in a GUID partition table (GPT). It cannot be a basic master boot record (MBR) partition found on many Microsoft machines. Then format one as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and one as NTFS or if you're on an antiquated windows machine FAT 32 or FAT 16(which will not recognize drives larger than 2gb, but will work fine if you are partitioning one of the drives as less than 2gb). Once this is complete, you are done and ready to use on both Mac & Windows full time and simultaneously.
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No. There IS, however, an external portable drive from WD that DOES work with the Mac. It's called My Passport for Mac and is available 500 GB to 2 TB. Just go to the WD web site. They offer other portable backup drives for the Mac.
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Worked fine for me. Didn't work with my 32GB USB, but it worked fine with my 2GB one.1. Plug the USB drive.2. Hit record (the gray button).3. Hit play (the silver button).Here are instructions to format the USB drive for DOS using a Mac computer:http://www.hgst.com/support/faqs/how-format-my-drive-use-windows-and-mac-fat32
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With the built in utilities on Windows or Mac, you can easily format this drive to whatever you like. OS X for Mac or NTFS for Windows. Unfortunately, those can only be read by their respective operating systems. If I remember correctly, FAT32 can be read by either O/S, but it has some limitations like 4GB maximum file sizes. There is a driver by Paragon (I think it costs $20 if you want to do it legally) that allows Mac to read your NTFS drives or vice versa. This would be another option if you need your drive to operate with both O/Ss. BTW, all drives have this limitation, and all drives can be formatted. As they love to charge more for MAC stuff (presumably because MAC people think they are cool, sometimes are ignorant, but don't care about cost), I would always recommend buying a PC drive and reformatting it to MAC if necessary.
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I am looking for an external hard drive to back up my entire lap top hard drive, in case of failure. Is the Passport Essential the unit I am looking for?
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Yes. That's exactly what I used it for. My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate. I did not try it on the Mac platform, but apparently there is no Data Migration tool for a Mac. I guess you're just supposed to clone your boot drive there. For Windows, it works great. You can use this for a variety of reasons besides SSD data migration, and even if your mobo doesn't support USB 3, it is backward compatible with USB 2.