I just bought two my passport drives…not I have bought several my passport for Mac drives and didn’t realize that you are supposed to format this drive. However, it is in a nfts format and is working fine with Savings photos to and from the disc. Do I need this disc to be formatted or is it okay? It seems to work fine. I don’t want to think that it’s okay, and then something catastrophically fail later.
Thank you!
Hi AutumnL,
If you using the drives on MAC computer the file format should be HFS+ and you need to format the drive.
You can have a look at this KBA:
If you are using the drives on Windows computer it should be fine as it’s already formatted to NTFS.
What happens if you don’t? I have already saved some images to an unformatted drive and it seems to work fine. But I don’t want something to go wrong with it.
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