The My Passport drive comes with a few utilities already installed on it, and if you want to save them, copy them to your Mac’s hard drive before you erase the disk. The hardware is identical inside, and any My Passport can be easily formatted for use with either a Mac or a Windows PC. ![]() ![]() You can buy drives already pre-formatted for a Mac, but I’ve found the one’s like you bought to be less expensive. In order for the Mac to use it, it has to reformat it for Mac OS X (Journaled). What probably happened is that when you purchased the My Passport you actually bought one that was pre-formatted for a Windows PC. Short answer, go ahead and click the Erase button, which will reformat your My Passport drive to be used on your Mac. When I plugged it in and tried to set it up in Time Machine, I got a warning “Are you sure you want to erase the backup disk “My Passport”? Erasing will destroy all information on the disk and can be undone.” Should I go ahead or did I miss something? ![]() I want to use it with my MacBook Pro which has El Capitan on it, with the Time Machine app. I just got a new My Passport 2tb external storage drive from Staples.
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