How To Reformat Passport Hard Drive For Mac

Formatting the WD My Passport will erase any existing data on the hard drive. In fact on the Mac, you choose the Erase button to do it, so that’s clear. It is destructive process and if there are any files on there you want to keep.

My external hard drive for my MAC (my passport essential 3200bmv) was stolen and later recovered by the police. The criminal erased all of my data and used it on his own computer for his files on a PC (which the police erased before giving it back to me). But now I'm not able to save any of my MAC files on it. Free excel for mac. I can read whats left on the drive as police only erased the criminals pics etc.

It looks as though he might have reformatted it to work with his PC?? I've googled this and can't find answers to figure out how to fix this and format it back to accept my MAC files. Help please!!!

My external hard drive for my MAC (my passport essential 3200bmv) was stolen and later recovered by the police. The criminal erased all of my data and used it on his own computer for his files on a PC (which the police erased before giving it back to me). But now I'm not able to save any of my MAC files on it. I can read whats left on the drive as police only erased the criminals pics etc.

It looks as though he might have reformatted it to work with his PC?? I've googled this and can't find answers to figure out how to fix this and format it back to accept my MAC files. Help please!!!