Hi,
I recently purchased a 4Tb My Passport For Mac, via Amazon, for my MacBook Pro (2017).
Out of the box it arrived pre formatted to NTFS?
Why would WD do this?
It seems illogical for it to arrive out of the box this way and not pre formatted to a HSF, OS Extended journaled.
Regardless I intend to partition the drive as:
2Tb as OS Extended Journaled for Time machine
2Tb ex fat as a scratch drive I can use on either Windows or Mac.
Apart from the obvious issues of loosing both partitions on if drive failure occurs, would someone please advise if the following action steps are the best to proceed to achieve my goal.
1/ Erase My passport - in so doing loosing WD Image containing software and related info - formatted as OS Extended journaled.
2/ Partition to 2 x 2Tb partitions - formatting one as Ex fat.
Any advice appreciated - apologise if this has been covered off on a previous thread but my preliminary search didn’t exactly relate (to be sure to be sure) 
Disclaimer: New to Mac with only iOS experience (iPhone,Ipad)
Cheers Rossco
