This article explains how to boot up a macOS from a My Passport Pro.*END Apple's macOS can be installed on many WD external hard drives in order to run the directly from the hard drive. The has been verified to work as a bootable drive that can be used in this manner. However, for this drive to be bootable, the drive must contain a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file system with a GUID partition table. After the drive is ready, macOS needs to be installed into the drive in order for it to be selectable as a Startup Disk.

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Critical: While it may be possible to boot a computer from an external hard drive, Western Digital does not provide technical support for booting a computer using an external hard drive. Please see the following article by Apple for basic assistance:. If these instructions do not provide the necessary assistance, please contact for additional assistance. In order to ensure that the hard drive is prepared to run macOS on it, please run the to create a partition for the RAID drive.

The utility will create the volume with the necessary specifications. Once the RAID drive has been configured successfully, macOS will need to be installed on the drive, and afterwards the drive will need to be selected as the Startup Disk. For assistance on those two procedures, please follow the instructions below: Procedure Instructions Installing macOS on My Passport Pro (instructions will appear below this table) Configuring macOS to boot from a My Passport Pro (instructions will appear below this table). Installing macOS on a My Passport Pro: In order to install a version of macOS on a My Passport Pro, please follow the next steps: • Start by restarting the Mac system by clicking on the Apple icon on the top left of the screen and then clicking on Restart.

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• When the system starts up, press and hold the Command and the R keys (Command + R) at the same time. Keep holding both buttons together until the Apple icon appears. • When prompted, select to boot from the Recovery HD drive. • Shortly after selecting the Recovery HD, macOS Utilities will come up.

From the options listed, select Reinstall Mac OS X. • Accept the terms of use by clicking on Agree and then select the My Passport Pro as the disk where the OS will be installed. • The installation will begin by downloading components of the OS that are not included on the installation media. Once the download is complete, the installer will immediately start installing macOS on the drive.

This process can take several hours depending on the Mac computer's specifications and the speed of the internet connection. • Once the installation is done, a window will appear stating that the installation was successful. Restart the computer by clicking on the Restart option. Configuring macOS to boot from a My Passport Pro: Once macOS has been successfully installed on the hard drive, the drive is a bootable drive.