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: Hope this helps!
Dec 26, 2018 - If you need to overwrite files on the Windows partition using the Mac. Reminder that this partition will be used in conjunction with my Mac. To format WD Elements for Mac, FAT32 and exFAT are recommended file system because they are supported by both Windows and Mac. Two methods mentioned above apply to formatting WD Passport for Mac as well. However, AOMEI Partition Assistant is superior to Command Prompt as to FAT32 capacity requirement, let alone other powerful functions.
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