If you are not sure how to format your WD My Passport drive take a look at my article on how to format WD Passport for Mac.
Whether you have the WD My Passport for Mac or have bought the NTFS version they both need to be formatted first before partitioning. The other type is NTFS formatted and is simply called WD My Passport – no for Mac after the title. One has for Mac as part of the description and is preformatted to HFS+ (equivalent to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) File System.
Western Digital manufactures two types of the WD My Passport hard drive. How Do I Repartition My WD My Passport Drive? I Try To Partition And I Get An Error From Disk Utility I Have A Corrupted Partition How Can I Get To My Files? Why Does Creating Partitions And Formatting Reduce My Hard Drive Space? Click The Plus Sign Again If You Want To Create A Third Partition Now Click The Plus Sign At The Bottom Of The Pop Up Window The Partition Pop Up Window Now Shows On The Screen Look At The Top Of The Disk Utility Screen And Click On The Partition Button
