FAT was inherited from old DOS and has exFAT as its later extension.

In addition, the ReFS file system was developed as a new generation file system for server computers starting from Windows Server 2012.

Ntfs Wd Passport Mac And Windows

If you want to share digital files between Mac and Windows system easily, you must convert WD My Passport to FAT or exFAT.

Here are three ways to format a WD My Passport, follow any one of them to convert to FAT.

Ntfs Wd Passport Software Helps You

Whats more, this Windows partition software helps you create, resize, clone, move, and merge partitions without difficulty.

Follow the details below to convert WD My Passport to FAT32 or exFAT.

It does not offer the ability to format a drive larger than 32GB to FAT32, the only available choices are NTFS or exFAT.

If you want to format your WD My Passport to FAT32, you must make sure that the size is smaller than 32GB.

Once the process begins, all the data on the drive will be lost.

Then, you can use the drive in macOS or OS X as a regular hard drive.

The successive major versions of the FAT format are named after the number of table element bits: FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32.

FAT32 is the oldest of the three file systems available to Windows.

A FAT32 partition must also be less than 8 TB, which admittedly is less of a limitation unless youre using super-high-capacity drives.

It was added to older versions of Windows with updates to Windows XP and Windows Vista.

You can use it when you need a bigger file size and partition limits than FAT32 offers.

It is packed with modern features not available to FAT32 and exFAT.

However, it only works with all versions of Windows, but read-only with Mac by default.

To avoid unnecessary data loss issues, we highly recommended all users extract or back up important data to another device or partition in advance.

If you have quite a lot of data to be transferred, professional backup software shall be your best choice.

Here we recommend you try EaseUS Todo Backup which allows you to directly back up target data with simple steps.

Then select a destination where you want to store the backup file.

FAT32 is an older file system used for external drives due to its great compatibility.

You can back up exFAT partition data to another drive and then format the exFAT partition to NTFS with EaseUS Partition Master Free.