![]() ![]() Mac OSX does not require a special S ES driver. The SES driver sections of this article only affects Windows users. The legacy WD SES Driver dated from 2011 or earlier is available for download. Newer SES Drivers are distributed through Windows Updates and are install ed automatically with WD Security, WD Drive Utilities, and WD SmartWare. Disclaimer Western Digital is an independent technical service provider for several brands of gadgets, and not, in any way, associated with the Manufacturer of devices mentioned on the site. The how to use WD EasyStore on both Windows and Mac OS process successfully completed. Look To The Top Of Your Disk Utility Window And Click Erase. Pick Your WD Drive In The External Hard Drive List. Next Start Up The Disk Utility Application. On the upgrade page you linked to, if you click the ' WD SmartWare Utilities (VCD & Firmware) for Windows ' link, it first takes you to the page to upgrade the firmware (the EssentialEliteFirmwareUpdaterv2.010 (1.0.8.3). Look For Your WD Hard Drive On Your Desktop 3. My passport essential firmware update - WD Portable Drives. WD Discovery is a tray application a small icon appears in the Windows system tray in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. The Steps: How To Format WD My Passport For Mac 1. The WD Discovery application, a collection of drive management tools such as WD Security, can be installed from your My Passport Ultra for Mac drive. And the whole thing takes only a few minutes to do. After that you can use your WD Passport on both Mac and PC. Next you format your drive to an ExFAT file system. You plug in the WD My Passport Into Your Mac You format your My Passport to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system. However the same rules apply, only PCs with this software will see drives formatted for Macs.High Level View Of The Steps To Make WD Passport Work With Mac And Windows. Otherwise, you can have a drive as NTFS to allow to work on any PC and then install on your Mac a free app from the Apple website called NTFS-3G, which allows your Mac to fully use (read and write) to NTFS and also do automatic backups with no restrictions on both systems, but since it is done using the NTFS-3G software, this configuration will only work on YOUR Mac and the others will only read from the drive (But they won’t be able to add files).Īlso, you can have the drive as HFS+ to allow you to use it on any Mac and then install on Windows a program called HFSExplorer (Free), which allows you to read (see and copy out) drives formatted for Mac (But not write, so you can’t add files) or you can install MacDrive (NOT free), which is a software able to allow full HFS+ integration (Read and write) on a PC, meaning that it is the exact opposite to NTFS-3G. ![]() You can format a drive as FAT32, which would allow it to work on BOTH Windows and Mac, but it won’t do automatic backups, won’t take files larger than 4GB and will have a high risk of data corruption ![]()
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