Steps on how to format the drive are provided on the following link: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows (8, 7, Vista, XP) and Mac OSX. Format WD hard drive via professional format tool It seems rather simple to employ Diskpart to reformat WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT 32 to make it compatible with Mac and PC, but you are likely to make mistakes even format wrong partition when using Diskpart if you are unfamiliar with computer knowledge.
by Shirly Chen, updated on 2017-12-28 to Erase Data
'Hi, I am going to sell a 2TB WD portable hard drive. I think it is necessary to reformat the WD portable hard drive and permanently erase my private data. Is there any fast way to reformat the WD portable hard drive and erase all the data on the hard drive?' – Norio
'Hello, I connect my Western Digital portable hard drive with my computer. But my computer can't recognize the portable hard drive. Is there any way to reformat the portable hard drive to solve this issue?' – Misa
'My WD external hard drive is attacked by unknown virus, most of the files on the hard drive are infected. I want to reformat the WD external hard drive and permanently erase the virus-infected files.' – Jimmy
How To Reformat Wd My Passport Essential For Mac Os X A Western Digital external hard drive can be used on both Windows and Mac OSX. This is useful if a drive is being used under both Operating System (OS). You need an external hard drives for your Mac and the decision is the WD Elements versus My Passport. By default, a WD Elements HDD cannot work on Mac computers as they are formatted in NTFS format. This format is not supported on Mac devices and you will not be able to access the hard drive. Feb 26, 2021 When the Disk Utility opens, choose the Western Digital hard drive icon from the sidebar. Next, click the Erase tab. In the Erase dialog window, select the Volume Format drop-down list and choose APFS (native filesystem), or ‘MS-DOS (FAT)' or ex-FAT. The ex-FAT file system is best for formatting WD My Passport on Mac.
Reformatting is the best way to reset the Western Digital (WD) portable hard drive to factory status. Then the WD portable hard drive is able to securely be reused, resold, recycled or donated to other people. Especially, when you are going to throw an old WD portable hard drive into a trash, you'd better reformat it and permanently erase all your private data on it. However, do you know how to reformat WD portable hard drive? There may be lots of methods to reformat a WD portable hard drive on PC or Mac. Today, we will introduce an easy, secure and efficient way to reformat WD portable hard drive.
WD portable hard drive reformatting software for Windows/Mac
In order to reformat WD portable hard drive and permanently erase the data on the WD portable hard drive, we strongly recommend you to use this tool – Super Eraser to help you reformat the WD portable hard drive. Download this WD portable hard drive reformatting software here:
DoYourData Super Eraser offers certified data erasure algorithms to help in reformatting and erasing WD portable hard drive. Before you use this tool to reformat your WD portable hard drive, make sure all your important data on the WD portable hard drive has been backed up to another hard drive. Once the WD portable hard drive is reformatted by Super Eraser, all the data on the WD portable hard drive will be permanently erased, can't be recovered by data recovery software.
Easily reformat WD portable hard drive with Super Eraser
Super Eraser can help you efficient reformat WD portable hard drive on PC or Mac. Here, you can follow these steps to reformat WD portable hard drive with Super Eraser.
Step 1: Connect your WD portable hard drive with the computer.
Just connect your WD portable hard drive with the computer which has installed Super Eraser. Then run Super Eraser on your computer.
Step 2: Reformat the WD portable hard drive.
Choose this mode 'Wipe Hard Drive', select the WD portable hard drive, click on 'Wipe Now' button. Super Eraser will reformat the WD portable hard drive and permanently erase all data on the WD portable hard drive.
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Super Eraser is 100% safe data erasure software. It will not shorten the service life of the WD portable hard drive even the WD portable hard drive is erased 35 times by this software. Super Eraser also can help you permanently erase files/folders from WD portable hard drive, and wipe the free disk space of the WD portable hard drive.
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