Shop WD My Passport for Mac 4TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Hardware Encryption Black at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Window’s Disk Management and Mac’s Disk Utility applications are secure platforms to erase your WD My Passport easily. You don’t require any third-party software to format your WD My Passport with FAT or ex-FAT. Caution: Avoid Formatting your WD My Passport without Backup. About Your WD Drive My Passport for Mac User Manual 2. Physical Description As shown in figure 2, the My Passport for Mac drive has: A USB 3.0 interface port A power/activity LED indicator USB 3.0 Interface USB 3.0 supports interface transfer rates up to 5 Gb/s.
- WD Backup
- File Size: 7.11 MB
Version: 1.9.7117
Release Date: 08/05/2019|Release NotesDescription
WD Backup is an easy-to-use backup application. It automatically protects your files, photos and documents with on premise backups to a WD drive as primary storage. Off-premise backups to a cloud as secondary storage for disaster recovery purpose.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
Instructions
Unzip the file into a folder and double click the .exe file to install - WD Drive Utilities for Windows
- File Size: 15.5 MB
Version: 2.0.0.63
Release Date: 08/05/2019|Release NotesDescription
This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)
- Windows 7 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 8 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 8.1 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 10
Instructions
Unzip the file into a folder and double click the .exe file to install - WD Security for Windows
- File Size: 14.6 MB
Version: 2.0.0.63
Release Date: 08/05/2019|Release NotesDescription
This installer - WD Drive Utilities and WD Security, are contained within the WD Drive Utilities and the WD Security zip files and installs custom Western Digital software for WD USB and FireWire enabled external hard drives under Macintosh computers.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows Vista (32 & 64 bit)
- Windows 7 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 8 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 8.1 (32 & 64bit)
- Windows 10
Instructions
Unzip the file into a folder and double click the .exe file to install - Install WD Discovery for Windows
- File Size: 963 KB
Version: 3.3.34
Release Date: 05/30/2019|Release NotesDescription
WD Discovery allows you to download and keep up to date other WD Apps such as WD Security app, WD Backup and WD Drive Utilities, and learn about software from WD partners.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 10 32/64-bit versions
- Windows 8.1 32/64-bit versions
- Windows 7 32/64-bit versions
Instructions
Unzip the file into a folder and double click the .exe file to install
My Passport For Mac Instructions
- WD Universal Firmware Updater for Windows
- File Size: 3.30 MB
Version: 4.0.1.4
Release Date: 03/05/2019Description
This Universal Firmware Updater automatically detects and installs the latest firmware update available for your hard drive.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
Instructions
- Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except one My Book or My Passport.
- Download WDFirmwareUpdater.zip to your desktop.
- Extract the file using an extraction utility.
- Once extracted, double-click on the file named WDFirmwareUpdater.zip
- Click 'Continue.'
- Click 'Accept' on EULA.
- Please wait a few minutes until the required update modules are downloaded.
- If the drive displayed is the correct drive, click 'Continue.'
- Please wait a few minutes while your drive’s firmware is updated.
- Click 'Exit.'
- Please remove the USB and power cable. Wait 10 seconds and then connect the power cable and USB cable.
- Reboot your computer.
- WD SmartWare
- File Size: 39.9 MB
Version: 2.4.21
Release Date: 05/25/2018|Release NotesUnsupported Products
- New My Passport
- New My Book
- 8TB My Book drives with 8 character serial numbers
Description
Note: If you are running WD SmartWare version 1.1.x or 1.2.x, you are required to set up and enable a new backup plan once the WD SmartWare 2.0 upgrade installation has completed.
Software that facilitates automatic and continuous backup of all your files.Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 10
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
Instructions
- Download the Windows WD SmartWare Software Updater to your hard drive.
- Locate and launch the WD SmartWare Software Updater.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the update.
- After the update completes, restart your computer to finalize the update process and launch the WD SmartWare software.
- Open WD SmartWare, click the Backup tab and verify Start Backup is active. Make backup selections (choose either Category or File Backup) and Click Start Backup to resume automatic continuous backup.