Western Digital - My Book 1TB External USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive for Mac

Here is what I found:

IT IS NOT AS EASY AS JUST REFORMATING IT!

Windows will see a Mac-formatted drive as a "GPT Protected Partition", which can't be deleted, formatted, assigned a drive letter, or anything. This is very frustrating the first time you encounter it.

Fortunately, this is not terribly difficult to overcome. Here's how you do it:

1. Attach the disk. Windows will acknowledge it's been connected, but then will likely tell you it's not working properly.
2. Assuming the disk is empty and you haven't actually used it on Mac to backup data, we won't be worried about losing any data, so we can continue to the next step. I only list this step to make sure you're aware that everything on that disk will be deleted.
3. Open a command prompt by going to Start->Run, and typing "cmd"
4. Type the command "DiskPart" into the command line, and press enter.
5. Type "list disk". This will show all of the disks on your machine.
6. "Select" the disk you need to fix. Make ABSOLUTELY SURE you choose the right disk. Most of us only have one hard drive in our computer (disk 0), so the external drive will likely be "disk 1". The command you'd type would then be, "select disk 1"
7. Type the command, "clean". This removes the GPT protection.
8. Close the command prompt. Right click My Computer and select disk management.
9. You'll now see your new hard drive as "unallocated", which means we can now go through the normal formatting steps... right-click and "initialize", then right click and "format".

Easy, yes?

So to answer everybody's questions. Yes it can be done, and yes you'll be fine.

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Thanks Mr. Bauer! You can never have enough information! Tinman

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