• Format Wd My Book For Windows

In Wn10, MYbook shows up in devices, but not in file manager. Disk management shows it as ‘unknown’, unallocated, not initialized. I’ve been using it for a while for my graphics files.

Equipped with WD Backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac, the My Book desktop hard drive can back up your photos, videos, music and documents.

I have thousands of photos and art files. I cannot afford to reformat or do anything that loses the files. I loaded the SES file, but when I click on it, I don’t see anything happening. WD’s drive diagnostic doesn’t ‘see’ the drive. In disk management, a popup gives me the option of initializing using MBR or GPT. I have unplugged, replugged, moved from USB 3 to USB2, still nothihg. So here is the answer for everyone.

I had the same issue as all of you. The drive would show up in Device Manager as well as Computer Management but not in My Computer. It would show up as “Drive 0” in Computer Management. Now because the computer does not know what it is really, the “Right Click” and format is not an option. However if you right click on it in Computer management and select 'Create Simple Volume' I believe is the option it will walk you through a setup to assign a drive letter, an option to format or not format and when it is done you will see your drive and be able to use it in “Computer”. Hope this helps those that are not getting an answer from the company.

I had My Book connected to a desktop running Windows Vista. It worked fine for backing up my files. The old desktop recently died. I need to restore my files to a laptop running Windows 10. Dateiendungen die mit dem programm adobe photoshop for mac free download. I can see the files in File Manager when I connect via USB on my Windows 10 laptop, However,I want to use the Restore Feature that I bought and paid Western Digital for. The whole point of me paying my hard earned money to Western Digital for this device was to be able to rescue my files when needed. Now this cannot be done because operating systems changedlike this is the first time that’s ever happened.

Format Wd My Book For Windows

Geez I cannot do the restores manually (at least not in this lifetime) because the files are of course under many separate backup folders that you have to drill down to to get to the photos and documents I want to restore. So I need a Windows 10 driver for the My DriveI guess that’s what I need.

So I am saying to Western Digital, get with it please and find a way for me to restore my hundreds of files in a quick, seamless manner. Resurrecting my old Windows Vista desktop is not an option. It’s forever dead.

This answer explains how to use the WD Quick Formatter to format a WD external drive in Windows (8, 7, Vista, or XP) and Mac OSX (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mt. Lion, or Mavericks).*END Important: • 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 users reformat and repartition an external drive. This process is Data Destructive and cannot be undone.

Once the process begins, ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST! To reformat an external hard drive to the NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (Mac) file system, please follow the instructions below: • Download, unzip, install, and run the if running Windows, or if running Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9 (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks). Note: WD Quick Formatter for Mac is not supported on macOS Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra. It's best to use Disk Utility. Please see for more information. • When the application is started, the WD Quick Formatter's welcome screen will appear displaying the following warning message. After reading the warning, click Continue to move to the next screen.

• Click on Accept to accept the End User License Agreement. • Next, the application will scan for WD external drives to be formatted. • Depending on the size of the drive and the, one of two screens will appear. If the system is running Mac OSX, follow the instructions under the first choice below.

If running Windows, however, follow the instructions based on the drive size: • When the scanning process comes to an end, there will be a drop down menu listing a WD external drive under Drive to format. This is the screen displayed when the drive is 2TB in size or less. Click on the drop down menu to view and/or select different external drives from the list, should there be additional drives connected to the system.