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WD 250gb Passport V2 HD with a Macbook.
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Hey,
Yesterday, I got a WD 250gb Passport V2 HD for my MacBook.
After some accusations of it not working with Macbooks, I was scared that it may not work and I would have to wait several more weeks to get a different one.
I would like to announce, that it did work. Now, something I did not realise before I got it was that it is for 'Windows Only' which basically means its formatted for windows, which doesn't matter because it works fine on my mac. I had some problems with permissions but they seem to have fixed themselves. Overall this is a great little gadget and I recommend it to others who need an external hard drive which is portable.
Regards,
Alex
Reyox.com
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I second the WD Passports. I am using he 160 GB with my MBPro as my Time Machine drive. I formatted it HFS+ and off it went.
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24" iMac 2.8 C2Ext,15" MBPro 2.2 C2D,20" iMac 2.0 G5,12" iBook 1.2 G4
16GB 3G iPhone, 60GB 5th Gen iPod, 20 GB 3rd Gen iPod
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How do you format it for mac? :S Can you?
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Disk Utility in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Thanks for the reply, but I am in Disk Utility, Instructions from there onwards?
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Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001
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Unlike Windows, the Help in the Help menu is actually useful.
But select the drive and then the Erase tab. Format as HFS+ (Journaled).
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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I opened up the Passport and swopped my MacBook 120gb and the Passport's 250gb drive.
My MacBook now has the 250gb drive from the passport and I have a 120gb Passport 
It works fine.
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