I have been looking into buying a WD My Passport Ultra 1TB external drive version.

My PC currently runs on Windows XP but it will be upgraded to Windows 10 later. I want to backup the PC as it stands now, upgrade it, and then transfer the files over. So, is the latest version of My Passport Ultra compatible with Windows XP? Would I have to do something to make it compatible? I know the version of My Passport Ultra works with Windows XP. Is it also compatible with Windows 10? According to the link, the XP compatibility option is only available when the WD drive is larger than 2TB.

In that case, I would simply be reformatting my drive to the NTFS file system. However, it uses that file system by default. Windows 10 must use NTFS because the drive is compatible. Since the drive and both operating systems use the same file system, maybe the drive is compatible with both? Partitions will work with Windows 10 but not Windows XP Bit but will work with Bit. When you buy the 1TB My Passport As least now I know that I can switch to the correct partitioning if need be.

You gave me a definitive answer and convinced me to buy the drive. Western Digital should give you a raise for that alone: It took two days to Xcopy the contents of one WD Ultra to this new WD Ultra and I just find this out now? So now I have to format it and let a computer spend another 2 days XCOPYing 1. Please note, I suspect my Windows 10 laptop that I use for that is only USB2. I am not sure I have one with USB3. This was to be a backup of my other two WD Drives. I wonder how long it would take the 3. Will the encryption software still be there after a re-format?

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