formatting external wd hard drive for imac

#Formatting external wd hard drive for imac portable

Minimum System Requirements Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Apple OS X 10.11 El Capitan in one place.Īt Best Buy, it says the WD Passport Drive for compatibility is: Then just back up the new Mac onto the new drive, and have all my documents, etc.

#Formatting external wd hard drive for imac portable

I need to get everything off the older Mac onto a portable drive that I can use with the new Mac.

I realize I didn't properly explain my problem in my first message.

I'm in the US and I was doing a chat with Best Buy late last night, and my local store has the one you recommended above. I thought this would be so simple and maybe I complicated it as I was very intimidated by having to reformat. If in the United States, Best Buy sells all four sizes: I'd be surprised if it didn't work on both of the OP's computers, and if it didn't then it would make sense to buy from a place with a good return policy. Even if they don't say that it works, USB drives typically work on anything as long as they're reformatted correctly. I still don't consider out of the box format to be an issue, since reformatting is pretty fast and easy.

Probably needs HFS+ (Journaled) but then I didn't hear how the OP intended on doing the backups. Any drive that you have the hardware to attach, once formatted for Mac, should be readable by either or both. Drive formats for use by the two systems you mentioned are identical.