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Inside you’ll find your WD My Passport external drive, USB cable and quick start guide. If you haven’t purchased the WD My Passport drive yet and are thinking about your options, make sure you purchase a drive that is large enough for your needs. I won’t go into the ins and outs of that here. Take a look at Still thinking about which to choose? Take a look a Or take Connecting up the WD Passport Drive on Mac Turn on and log into your Mac then you’ll be ready to connect up the My Passport drive. Understand what connections you have on your Mac The WD My Passport hard drive is powered from your Macs. One end of the cable is USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0) compatible and that is the end you connect to your Mac. And assuming your Mac has a USB 3.0 or 2.0 port you can plug straight in. Macbook 3.0 USB Ports The other end of the WD cable has a Micro USB B port and plugs into the My Passport drive. Should your Mac be of the latest variety then it will have USB 3.1 ports also referred to as USB C or Thunderbolt They are physically different as you can see but backwards compatible with the right USB cable. You will need to get yourself an adaptor cable that will plug into your Thunderbolt port at one end and the Micro USB B port at the other. Don’t panic, they are available on Amazon and my favorite ones are; 1. Excel for mac equations. When the Format Cells window appears, select the Protection tab. To do this, select all of the rows and columns in your sheet. To hide the formulas, first you'll need to un-protect all of the cells on your sheet. Right-click on then select 'Format Cells' from the popup menu. The My Passport drive won’t run as fast as a Thunderbolt drive – but then you pay a lot more for those drives. The My Passport drive will run just fine on the Thunderbolt port of your newer Mac at the USB 3.0 speed specifications. Once Plugged In There is an LED light on the front of the WD My Passport drive, it blinks slow and steady when the drive is on standby, fast flashing when the drive is being read or written to by your Mac a steady light when the drive is not doing anything LED Off, when the drive is off. Your Mac should recognize the drive is plugged in and you’ll see a icon appear on your desktop representing the hard drive. External Drive Icon On Desktop Now you are ready to set up and use your My Passport drive. Decide what you would like to use the My Passport on your Mac for And then set it up that way. What do I mean by that? • For copy or pasting files of specific types of e.g. Music or Photos • Transfer files from one Mac to another, perhaps taking your My Passport to another location • as a Backup destination for Time Machine • Share files between a Mac and a PC You can have your Passport drive specific to one thing. Say backups or split up or partitioned for several roles. How do I Start to use WD My Passport for Mac? To start, particularly if you have a WD My Passport no Mac in the title, you will need to format your external hard drive. I have a specific article to for Mac use the link to find out how. Then you may want to partition your WD My Passport drive. Again I have an article covering ‘How to Partition WD My Passport for Mac’ Why Partition? Partitioning allows you to take advantage of the cheaper cost per terabyte of larger hard drives. Divide your drive into sections and use the drive for different things. Depending on what you plan to use your WD My Passport drive for I have 5 ways – how to use WD My Passport for Mac. How to write a USB stick with macOS. Creating a Bootable Linux USB drive. At the ISOHybrid image detected prompt, select Write in ISO Image Mode (Recommended) and hit OK to commence the creation of the image. How to: Create an Ubuntu Bootable USB on Mac, Windows or Ubuntu. How to Boot a Linux Live USB Drive on Your Mac The Problem. Apple’s made it difficult to boot non-Mac OS X operating systems off of USB drives. Use Mac Linux USB Loader. A tool named ' Mac Linux USB Loader ' by SevenBits worked well for us. Booting the Drive. To actually boot the drive, reboot. Kali live Linux bootable USB for Mac So far, I've only found one method that works consistently to boot into Kali Linux on a Mac (at least on my test Mac). That method is to use the Mac Linux USB Loader on a Mac to create the bootable USB. Linux how to write a bootable usb for mac. Way 1: Creating Folders on your WD My Passport Drive With your Passport drive connected you double click on the desktop icon for the hard drive. Important Note If the copy of the files on the WD My Passport hard drive is the only copy of the files you have, then you are in a vulnerable position should anything happen to the My Passport drive. Do make sure you have a copy of the entire drive or copies of the files elsewhere just in case the drive should fail. • Should you have files on the WD My Passport drive you want to copy across or move to your internal hard drive, you follow the same procedure. Open up a finder window on your My Passport hard drive and a separate window on your internal drive.
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