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