Select WD Elements on the left side of the window. Right click and choose 'Erase' from the pop-up menu. Create a name and choose 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' assuming you have a current vision of OS-X. It will reformat the drive in about a minute. Jun 08, 2017 Hello, I want to format a recently purchased 1tb Elements for use with my Macbook Pro running 10.6.8 which I thing is Snow Leopard. Any help as to how to do that would be appreciated. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for WD 1TB WD Elements Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive Storage (WDBUZG0010BBK-EESN) at Amazon.com. Trouble formatting new Elements for Mac and PC. WD External Drives. WD Portable Drives. 2017-05-16 04:27:09 UTC #1. When trying to set up the Elements on my MacBook Pro, it wouldn’t erase, so I tried to format anyway for ExFAT. Got a message that the format attempt failed due to not enough space on the device. I assume that meant the WD Element.
Hey, Let me ask you this first. Did it mounted successfully last time you plugged into the Mac. Was there an unusual behaviour of the disk say an unpleasant clicking noise? When you plug your WD external hard drive to macOS, does it show in Finder. How to format WD Elements external hard drive for MAC? Best Answer: You can format it in FAT 32 so that it can be read and written to by a PC or a MAC. Normally, the external hard disk comes with.
> Erase Data > How to Reformat Western Digital Portable Hard Drive?
by Shirly Chen, 2017-12-28
'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
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:
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.
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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.
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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