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You must be very attached to your media files. Your media files must be closer to your heart than any other files. Unlike other files, media files help you relax perfectly. At any point of time, you would love to fall back on your media files and enjoy life. Given that the count of mp3, jpeg and mp4 files keep increasing as days pass by, it's better to have a backup of your media files in a high capacity storage device like WD My Passport Studio for Mac, if you happen to be a Mac user. You can transfer your media files from your iPod, mobile, camera or personal computer onto this device. As long as the transfer isn't complete, you cannot be sure about having it safely stored. If while transferring there is a power surge you may end up losing all your files. In that case you will have to recover the lost files using data recovery applications. These are third party tools which can recover all your lost or deleted data for you.
The WD My Passport Studio is designed for Mac users. It supports USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 connectivity as Mac supports only this connectivity. It has a sleek and scratch resistant design which complements its performance. The drive can store approximately 500,000 songs, 400,000 photos, or video of 240 hours. WD My Passport Studio for Mac has a storage capacity of 2 TB enough for a lifetime of storage. Another interesting feature is that it comes equipped with software for encryption and password protection. This makes your more data secured.
You can recover your precious .mov, .jpeg, .mp3, etc media files lost from your external hard drive with the help of Remo Recover (Mac) Media Edition. The tool will easily recover pictures on Mac computers in simple steps. First you need to just download the software and install it on your Mac. Connect your external drive to Mac and run the recovery software. Select Recover Photos followed by Recover Lost Photos. Select the external drive for scan. After the rigorous scan, the lost media files which you need are located. You can select the files to recover the same in a new location. If you need to recover documents, go to the basic edition and perform a similar scan for doc files.
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As of 2018, Western Digital offers no shortage of external drives for Mac computers – from the My Book Essential to the My Book Pro and the My Book Studio, nearly 30 WD drives play nicely with Apple’s macOS operating system, as does the My Passport Studio model.
But with more than 262.5 million PCs shipped in 2017, according to data from Statista, there’s a good chance your Passport Studio will need to play nicely with a Windows computer, too. When it comes to cross-platform flexibility, you’ve got a few options for crossing the Mac and PC streams.
About eFAT and FAT32
Here’s something your My Passport for Mac Quick Install Guide might not tell you: Hard drives usually come formatted in two different ways, one catering to Windows and one catering to Mac. NTFS-formatted drives work with Windows computers, and HFS+ drives work with Mac.
However, by formatting your My Passport differently, you can ensure compatibility in a variety of different ways. Hard drives formatted to exFAT or FAT32 can read and write data on both Mac and PC operating systems, though FAT32 is limited to a 4-gigabyte-per-file size limit. Formatting your drive will erase all its data, so be sure to back it up before making the change.
External Drive for Mac to Windows 10
If you’ve got a WD external drive for Mac platforms and you want it to work on a Windows 10 PC, exFAT format is your best bet. To start formatting, connect your WD Passport to your Mac; then open “Mac HD” and click “Applications,” “Utilities” and “Disk Utility.” From the Disk Utility window, select the Passport hard drive.
Here, you’ll usually see two listings of partitions available on the drive – select the listing that is furthest left. Click the Disk Utility’s “Erase” button; assign the drive a name in the “Name” field; then hit “Erase,” and click “Done” when the erasing process is complete. Now, click the “Partition” button at the top of the Disk Utility and click “Format.” Choose “exFAT” from the drop-down menu that appears and click “Apply” to format the drive, which will take a few minutes. Once the formatting is complete and you get a message that says “Operation successful,” click “Done.”
To Windows 8 and Earlier
The external drive for Mac to Windows 8 transition makes use of Window’s built-in Disk Management software rather than the macOS Disk Utility, but you’ll still want to format your WD Passport as an exFAT drive.
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To do so, connect the Passport to your PC, enter the Windows 8 Start menu and choose “Disk Management.” In the Disk Management app, right-click on the drive and select “New Simple Volume...” from the menu that appears. This brings up the New Simple Volume Wizard. Click the “Next” button until you get to the “Format Partition” window and choose “exFAT” under “File System” (you can also change the name of the drive under “Volume label” if you wish). Make sure the “Perform a quick format” box is checked, and click “Next” when you’re ready. Click “Partition” and then “Finish” to format the drive to a cross-platform compatible exFAT mode.
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