Will a western digital 1tb passport se work with lion?

Hi, bought a western digital hard drive at the same time as i bought my mac but it wont work with lion. can anyone help?

My WD Passport is working with Lion.
Did you reformat your drive using Disk Utility to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
If you have and are still having problems, I would return it and get the Seagate GoFlex drive.

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So you think that you know better than Apple.
NAS is not supported by Time Machine, you can take all the risks you like but do not advise others to do so. It doesn't matter what WD say, they want you to buy one, Apple are the deciders of what is supported or not.
Here's what WD say:
Note: WD does not provide technical support for Time Machine related issues. For assistance with backing up to a WD NAS drive, using the Time Machine application please contact Apple. As the backup application is built into the OS, they are the only ones qualified to diagnose a Time Machine related issue.
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Problème Disque dur Western Digital My Passport Essential 1 To USB 3.0

Bonjour,
J'ai acheté un hdd Western Digital My Passport Essential 1 To USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 Silver.
P/N WDBACX10010BSL
S/N WXK14AA0X1511
Le problème est le suivant : Le disque n'est pas visible, alors j'ai regardé dans le gestionnaire de périphérique un point exclamation d'affiche jaune en disant "WD SES Device USB Device".
Je suis aller sur le site Western Digital pour recherche le driver, après avoir lancer la rechercher il n'y aucun driver disponible en tapant le P/N.
Si quelqu'un pourrait m'aider à résoudre ce problème.
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Le problème était le fichier système formaté sous mac. *Les partitions étaient en mac os x étendu.* Windows ne pouvait lire ce système de fichiers.
Alors on essayé différentes file system. *Il faillait choisir MS-DOS (FAT32) pour mac et Windows.*
Après ce formatage nous avons essayé sur un machine Windows vista ou 7. Maintenant ça marche.
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