Attach the WD My Passport hard drive to your Mac computer.
Click the magnifying glass icon (Spotlight) and type Disk Utility. Select the Disk Utility program from the search result list.
The Mac Disk Utility window appears.
Make sure that the WD My Passport Ultra is selected on the left-hand side panel.
Click the Erase tab. Select 'ExFAT' from the drop-down list. (Using this format lets you connect this WD drive to a Windows or Mac computer.)Click Erase.
The 'Untitled' drive should appear on the desktop. If not, click the Finder icon on the dock, and the Untitled drive will be displayed in the 'Devices' section. Rename it and use it just like you would use a USB stick.
If you need to use this WD My Passport drive on your Mac computer extensively, follow these steps.
Go to Disk Utility and click the Erase tab. Choose the 'Mac OS' option from the 'Format' drop-down list. Click the Partition tab and click the + icon to partition the drive. Clicking it multiple times creates many partitions.
Click on - to delete a partition. Click a partition and type the size of the partition in the 'Size' field to set the partition size manually. Type a partition name that you can understand easily. (For example, type photos for the partition where you want to store photos.)
Set the format type as 'Mac OS(Journaled)' and then, click Apply Partition. Wait until the partition operation is completed. The partitions now appear on the desktop.

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How to Format WD My Passport Ultra 1TB for Windows?

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The My Passport for Mac portable drive is trusted to store the massive amounts of photos, videos and music you love. Its sleek style is fun and fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, so you can easily take your treasured content everywhere you go. Go to the Western Digital official Support site and click the Menu button at the top-left portion of the page. Choose Downloads WD Software. Choose the WD My Passport Ultra 2TB setup from the drop-down list and click Submit. Go to the WD Drive Utilities for Mac option and click it. WD - My Passport Ultra for Mac 2TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Hardware Encryption - Silver. Model: WDBKYJ0020BSL-WESN. User rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars with 165 reviews. (165) Price Match Guarantee. $89.99 Your price for this item is $89.99. Since WD designed this My Passport Ultra drive for Mac, it comes preformatted HFS+ for macOS Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra. If you happen to work across both Windows and Mac platforms, WD provides a downloadable HFS+ driver for Windows 10, 8.1, and 7, which enables the reading and writing of this My Passport Ultra drive without any reformatting.

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To know how to format the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB setup on Windows computer, follow the guidelines mentioned below.

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Use a USB cable to connect the Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB drive to the Windows computer.

Once the computer detects the connected Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB hard drive, the Windows computer starts to configure automatically.

The first step is to click the Start icon, type ‘this pc’ in the search bar, and select the This PC option from the search result.

Select your WD My Passport drive on the left panel of the screen

On the main panel, click the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB drive’s icon, and select the Format button.

In the Format window, navigate to the File System field, and select either the exFAT or FAT32 option.

Below the Format Options field, make sure to checkmark the box next to the Quick Format option.

After specifying the settings in the Format window, click the Start button.

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