• Existing Drive: If you're formatting a drive that you've been using and that has data on it, double-check in Explorer that the drive letter you're choosing here in Disk Management is the same as the one you see in Explorer that has the information on it that you want to erase. How to insert best fit line on ti 84. You may be very sure already but do us a favor and check again. This isn't a place to make a mistake because you're in a hurry or are overly sure of yourself. • New Drive: If you're formatting a new drive, a great way to tell that it's the right one is to look at the File System column in the top part of Disk Management. Do you pay for adding windows to a mac?. Your existing drives will show of or but a new, unformatted drive will show RAW instead.

How to format external drives using WD Quick Formatter in Windows or Mac. To reformat an external hard drive to the NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (Mac) file system, please follow the instructions below. How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS for more information.