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Important: Please note if this is the first time connecting an external device to a macOS, there is a Reformatting Required for Mac OS Compatibility, please see Answer ID 3879: Reformatting Required for Mac OS Compatibility. Once the process begins, ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST!Ĭritical: 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. ![]() This process is Data Destructive and cannot be undone. Please note the instructions do not differ when formatting different capacity sizes, this is not capacity specific.Ĭritical: The instructions in the article below are designed to help repartition and format a hard drive. Internal HDD and internal SSD drives do not ship pre-formatted and will need to be Partitioned and formatted before being used. ![]() ![]() External hard drives and external solid state drives come pre-formatted and ready for use for the specific OS it's pre-formatted.
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