The hardware is identical inside, and any My Passport can be easily formatted for use with either a Mac or a Windows PC. You can buy drives already pre-formatted for a Mac, but I’ve found the one’s like you bought to be less expensive. In order for the Mac to use it, it has to reformat it for Mac OS X (Journaled). What probably happened is that when you purchased the My Passport you actually bought one that was pre-formatted for a Windows PC. Short answer, go ahead and click the Erase button, which will reformat your My Passport drive to be used on your Mac. When I plugged it in and tried to set it up in Time Machine, I got a warning “Are you sure you want to erase the backup disk “My Passport”? Erasing will destroy all information on the disk and can be undone.” Should I go ahead or did I miss something? I want to use it with my MacBook Pro which has El Capitan on it, with the Time Machine app. I just got a new My Passport 2tb external storage drive from Staples.
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