Will this work with Mac formated drives?
1156435
I don't see why not...as long as its a SATA drive...and plugged into another mac
1156436
Yes, mine was a Mac formatted drive and is now just an external I use for backup for my MacBook pro.
1156437
Yes, I used this for my 2012 MacBook pro drive and it had no problem reading it. I use this drive as an external now as well
1040838
I would say no since the latest drives I could find were for Power PC. It looks to be pretty dated drivers for the Mac.
514987
You should be able to use it on both Windows and Mac to read and write. You just have to reformat the drive for FAT32 rather than NTFS. I did this with my WD my passport ultra, works fine unless Toshiba has documentation that states you cannot format FAT32, but I doubt it.
1765380
Yes, but... As it comes, the drive is pre formatted as a single HFS+J partition for compatibility with Mac OSX operating systems. To use the drive with Windows operating systems you must: 1) Reformat the drive to a single NTFS partition; 2) restore the WD SmartWare software and disk image. For me that sounds complicated. You have to go to http://support.wdc.com and refer to Knowledge Base Answer ID 3865 for information about reformatting a Mac drive.
1929600
Not sure, since I do not own a Mac computer. This question should be referred to the Seagate Customer Support.
179800
you can get any external drive ..... for it to work properly on a mac the first thing you will have to do is format it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" then every thing will go smooth if you are using a mac only.
1008247
This drive has a lot of computability problems, I would not try it on mac, most likely it will not work.
1476061
It depends on the Mac OS Newer (Past 5 Years) OS will recognize NTFS Format
489052
Yes this drive is compatible with a Mac. I plugged it in, opened up Disk Utility, formatted it (Mac OS Extended (Journaled) to be exact) and it's working just peachy. I even partitioned it, about half for backups and the other half for other stuff.
2098861
Compatible with SATA III specs And USB 3.0 on PCs ,but not sure about the MAC OS X and USB 3.0.
1357046
Yes, all external hard drives are compatible with both windows and mac, it just depends on how you format it.
119804
I can't confirm that it will work with the Mac version of the WD My Book, but it DOES work with the non-Mac WD My Book. I have it hooked up to a 1 TB WD My Book.
1432597
As long as it is a SATA style connection, then, yes, it will work. Simply replace your existing drive with this one, format it, then install OS X on it
2044806
Yes, this drive will work with a Mac that does not have a FireWire port if you use Apple's Thunderbolt-to-FireWire adapter.
929835
Windows does not have native support for reading Mac formatted devices. Mac systems, on the other hand, can read and write FAT32 formatted drives and can read but not write NTFS formatted drives. If you want to use this drive to transfer files between Mac and Windows computers, re-format it as FAT32; or, purchase a drive that is already formatted for the PC.
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@Tony I believe you could. You'd have to create two partitions on the drive, one formatted in HFS+ (for Mac) and the other in NTFS (for Windows). I have never done any such thing but it might be worth a try. Of course, as these drives have come so far down in price, why not just buy two, one for Mac and the other for Windows?
2006924
This Drive is NTFS formatted so it will not work on MAC. For MAC system you will need either FAT32 or MAC journal formatted.