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WD Backup: Supported Drives


IMPORTANT: WD Backup End of Support Notice!
WD Backup has reached its end of support life cycle.

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Acronis True Image for Western Digital can be used instead.
Answer ID 6550: Install and Uninstall Acronis True Image for Western Digital on Windows.

Download of this software provides a 5-year license to use it with your compatible drive. This software is available only under a limited time offer and must be redeemed by download and install within 90 days of purchase or by December 31, 2025, whichever is earlier. This offer may not be combined with other offers and is subject to change. Terms and conditions apply.

Use of this software requires download and installation to a system connected to at least one of the compatible Western Digital (WD, SanDisk, G-Technology) storage products. When using with the My Cloud NAS products, the software must be running from an operating system on the same local network.

Acronis True Image for Western Digital will only backup files and folders physically stored on the local drive. It will not backup or pull data hosted remotely in Cloud Services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive.


WD Backup supports the most popular WD external drives that are formatted using the following file systems: NTFS, FAT32, FAT, exFAT.

Internal, non-WD external, and My Cloud (NAS) drives are not supported.
HSF+ formatted drives are not supported.

My Passport Family

WD device Model numbers that begin with
My Passport Go WDBY9Y, WDBMCG
My Passport SSD WDBK3E, WDBKVX
My Passport WDBYFT, WDBYNN, WDBZZZ
My Passport Ultra WDBBKD, WDBBRL, WDBBUZ, WDBDDE, WDBGPU, WDBMWV, WDBNFV, WDBPCG, WDBWWM, WDBZFP,WDBFKT, WDBTLG, WDBFTM, WDBC3C
My Passport Ultra for Mac WDBCGL, WDBJBS, WDBPMV, WDBKYJ
My Passport Ultra Metal WDBCHW
My Passport For Mac WDBL1D, WDBLUV, WDBLUZ, WDBZ9S, WDBZYL, WDBP6A, WDBFKF
easystore Portable WDBDNK, WDBKUZ


My Passport Wireless Family

WD device Model numbers that begin with
My Passport Wireless WDBDAF, WDBK8Z, WDBLJT
My Passport Wireless Pro WDBP2P, WDBSMT, WDBVPL
My Passport Wireless SSD WDBAMJ

My Passport Wireless is supported in USB connected DAS mode.

My Book Family

WD device Model numbers that begin with
My Book WDBFJK, WDBBGB
My Book Duo WDBLWE, WDBFBE
My Book Pro WDBDTB
My Book for Mac WDBYCC, WDBEKS
easystore Desktop WDBCKA



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Answer ID 6342
Published 08/20/2018 12:55 AM
Updated 05/17/2022 06:23 AM

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