Plug your hard drive into your computer
For Windows-
1. Right click on my computer and select manage
2. Click on disk management
3. Choose the drive you want to reformat (Should have some form of Western Digital in it)
4. Reformat
For Mac-
1. Search for disk utility
2. Select disk you want to reformat
3. Reformat
Hi.
Well, if you don't need to save anything, then just format the drive.
This will wipe out everything on the drive, making it same as new.
To do this, click start, then my computer
then right click on the drive that you want to format, and select format from the drop down list.
This will open the format box.
If you are using windows xp or newer, then select NTFS as your file system.
Where it says bytes per sector, the normal size is 4096, but I usually go with 512, that way if there is problems later, the computer has an easier time of salvaging the data in those ares.
Let the format go all the way through, and then after it is done, reboot your computer.
You now have a clean, formatted hard drive to do with as you wish.
I hope you have a great day, and thanks for coming to FIXYA !!
Mac OS X 1 Connect the Western Digital My Passport hard drive to the computer. Power on both.?? 2 Open "Disk Utility," located in the Utilities
sub-folder of the Applications folder.?? 3 Select the drive you wish to reformat. Typically, drives
appear twice; choose the furthest left.?? 4 Click "Erase," and pull down the Format menu.
Choose "FAT32." Enter a hard drive name, if desired.?? 5 Click "Erase." A confirmation screen will appear,
stating that all information on the drive will be lost if erased. Click
"Erase." Once completed, the erased drive will function on both
Windows and Macintosh systems.?? Windows 1 Download and install the Western Digital FAT32 Formatting
Utility.?? 2 Connect the Western Digital My Passport hard drive to the
computer. Power on both.?? 3 Open the FAT32 Formatting Utility and select the desired
external hard drive. Ensure that "Restore factory original FAT32
partition" is selected.?? 4 Click "Start." A warning message will appear,
stating that all data on the drive will be destroyed. Click "OK" to
continue. Click "Yes"' to navigate through.?
By uninstall do you mean the operating system?
It depends how far back you want to start over. You can just reinstall windows which will erase everything and set up your operating system fresh. If you need to really erase so that the information is irrecoverable check out Darik's Boot and Nuke here. I hope this helps and have a nice day!
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