This drove me crazy for a long time. I have a few wd passport external drives which worked fine with windows 7 as identified on many posts. Though as indicated previously they CAN work on windows 8.1 RT. They will work as a normal drive as long as you do not have a password on the drive. The wd software will not work on windows RT, but the drive will work as normal, if there is no password on the wd drive.

How to format ssd for windows install using macbook pro. The best way to do this is to format the drive, which both erases the drive and prepares it for storing data by mapping out bad sectors, creating address tables for locating the data on the disk, and more. You'll want to reformat that drive for your Mac. Similarly, you may have purchased a new drive that was formatted for Windows out of the box. Sometimes you want to wipe out all the data that’s on a hard drive or solid-state drive—erase it and start over. But formatting a drive so that it can be used as your Mac’s startup drive requires a slightly different procedure than formatting it for use as a secondary drive for storing data.

Use a computer with out windows RT on it and remove your password. Then plug it into your surface with windows RT.

Sep 18, 2013 - I have files backed up on an external WD My Passport drive. You will be able to download the software for free and to restore your files. All the files - so how do I get my files on my PC formatted MyPassport to my new Mac?