how to format my WD My Passport for Mac on to windows 8.1

[logan28384]

I have a WD My Passport for Mac. I used to have a Macbook Air so it would always read the devise cause i guess it was formatted just for Mac. I sold my Mac and bout a windows computer. So how do i get to see my files from my external hard drive on my PC? cause it will not let me.

 

[kenrivers]

You might try something like HFSExplorer to see if that helps. It won't let you look at the files without some third party software because of the differences in the file systems used.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, Logan!

You'd need to use a Mac to reformat your WD My Passport in a file system that can be read by Windows.
The Mac is needed to store your files from the external HDD until you've reformatted it for use with Windows OS, because this change will result in erasing all the data on the drive.
To avoid such future incidents, I recommend using the FAT32 file system because this format can be read and written to by both operating systems. Here's a tutorial that explains how to perform this: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YvJkWM

Hope this helps! Good luck!
SuperSoph_WD