Will this HDD Work for Windows?

[KevinS200]

Hey guys i have a Western Digital Passport HDD for Mac but i was wondering will this work on my Windows computer... i don't own a mac & i got this HDD for free, i had plugged it in & it installed all drivers successfully but its not showing up on my HDD list.

 

[woodson75]

It's quite possible that it's formatted in HFS+ - this is the principal file system of Mac OS X. Maybe try formatting it in NTFS

 

[KevinS200]

It's quite possible that it's formatted in HFS+ - this is the principal file system of Mac OS X. Maybe try formatting it in NTFS

How do i do this? I cant seem to find what partition it is, so im not sure how i convert it to NTFS.

 

[woodson75]

Have you tried plugging it into different/all usb ports on your machine?

 

[woodson75]

The first answer on here should also help: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZUYE0Emqn84J:answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/external-hard-drive-not-showing-up-in-windows/c8581b36-17d4-41c9-b3e5-a259bca943ba+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz

 

[woodson75]

If that works and the drive shows in Explorer, you should just be able to right click on it and select format, and then choose NTFS as your file system.

 

[KevinS200]

If that works and the drive shows in Explorer, you should just be able to right click on it and select format, and then choose NTFS as your file system.

I managed to get it too show up on my HDD List but it removed 500GBs out of it & says the max is 96.0 MB on HDD list but on "Computer Management" it says 500 GBs 'Unallocated'.The Disk im speaking of is (E) which is the Mac HDD. Also when i try to change it to "NTFS" It says Windows was unable too format.l

 

[woodson75]

It's formatted in FAT32 at the moment. Re-format it in NTFS from File Explorer (right click on it and choose NTFS as the file system)

 

[KevinS200]

It's formatted in FAT32 at the moment. Re-format it in NTFS from File Explorer (right click on it and choose NTFS as the file system)

It's not working it just tells me "Windows is unable to format" when i put it to "NTFS".

 

[woodson75]

Give this a go: http://www.howtogeek.com/195530/how-to-convert-a-mac-formatted-drive-to-a-windows-drive/

 

[KevinS200]

Give this a go: http://www.howtogeek.com/195530/how-to-convert-a-mac-formatted-drive-to-a-windows-drive/

Thank you so much, been trying to fix this for hours. Thanks for your time.

 

[woodson75]

All good, glad you got it sorted.