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Can you purchase a WD My Book for Mac and then reformat for PC?

Can you purchase a WD My Book 4TB for Mac (WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN) and then reformat for PC?

Hello there,

Yes you can, if you reformat the drive on a PC you should be able to use it, even if it was formatted for mac before. Here is a link that might help you with this:
http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=3647

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