The WD Quick Formatter is ONLY for external drives. Once the WD Quick Formatter is finished reformatting the drive, the drive will only have one partition. This is necessary in order to optimize the performance of the drive.
The WD Quick Formatter is the recommended way to format WD external drives that use Advanced Format Drives (AFDs).
The instructions in the articles below are designed to help you reformat and repartition your drive. This process is Data Destructive and cannot be undone. Once the process begins, ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST!
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To reformat your drive to the NTFS (Winodws) or HFS+ (Mac) file format, please follow the instructions below:
Download, install, and run the WD Quick Formatter for Windows if you are on Windows, or WD Quick Formatter for Mac if you are on Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion).
The warning message below will appear. Click Continue to format.
Click on Accept to accept the End User License Agreement.
Depending on the size of the drive and your 操作系统(OS), one of two screens will appear. If you are using Mac OSX follow the instructions under the first choice below. If you are using Windows, follow the instructions based on your drive size:
If your drive is 2TB or less, select the USB drive to format and click on Format Drive to start formatting your drive.
If you are using Windows and your drive is greater than 2TB, decide if you ever plan to use the drive with a computer running Windows XP. If you might use the drive with XP, select XP Compatible. If you never plan to use the drive with XP select Factory Default. Once you have made a selection, select your drive from the list and click the Format button.
Note: If you receive an error stating that the drive cannot be unmounted this means that another application, service, or program is activly using the drive. You will need to determine what is interacting with the drive and close it prior to formatting your drive. Common programs that may be using the drive are automatic backup programs (such as ), anti-virus, file downloading applications (BitTorrent clients, FTP clients, etc.), and remote access applications.
Critical: Do not disconnect power while the utility is running.
The WD Quick Formatter will show the progress bar while the format is taking place.
Once the Format is completed, click on the Format Another Drive button to select another USB drive or click on the Exit button to exit the program.
Note: When WD Quick Formatter is finished, the drive will have one partition. This is necessary in order to optimize the performance of the drive.
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