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Western Digital does not recommend multiple partitions due to potential corruption of the Partition table.Western Digital recommends that when formatting a drive that it be the only drive present on the system to limit occurences of accidental data loss. Once the process begins, ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST! This process is Data Destructive and cannot be undone. The instructions in the article below are designed to help repartition and format a hard drive.

The instructions do not differ when formatting different capacity sizes, this is not capacity specific.

Internal drives do not ship pre-formatted and will need to be Partitioned and formatted before being used.

Please refer to Answer ID 25242: How To Format an External Drive or Memory Card to Out of Box and OS Compatibility.

External hard drives come pre-formatted and ready for use.

It will take a short while to delete all the files and change the format of the disk.

Enter a name for the drive in Volume label and select the format type in the File system dropdown box.

Right click on the drive and select Format.

Complete the following steps in Disk Management: Use the start menu to search for and open the disk management utility – “Create and format hard disk partitions”.

Select the format type you wish to use and give the drive a name.

Select the drive you wish to format from the list.

Next, complete the following steps in Disk Utility To find it quickly, do a search for “Disk Utility” in the spotlight (magnify glass) icon on the upper right side of the screen. To reformat a hard drive or USB stick first open Disk Utility.

Mac OS Extended (Journaled) – Standard MAC only formatįormat Drive Instructions MAC Instructions.

ExFAT – Compatible with Windows and Mac Operating Systems.

This process only takes a few minutes but will erase all files on the drive so make sure you copy off any files you need before reformatting. To copy files to the drive you must re-format it using a different type of formatting.

This is common with new drives which frequently come formatted for Windows computers in the NTFS format, which is not comparable with Mac OS. If you can’t copy a file to your hard drive it likely isn’t formatted for the operating system you are using.