Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
I have a WD My Book Essential external hard drive I was trying to use for backing up my wife's computer. The software in it makes it a pain to use.
What she wants is to be able to locate individual files and download them to her computer hard drive easily. The WD software doesn't allow that to happen, or if it does I sure can't figure it out.
Is there a way I can wipe the WD clean by reformatting it and just use it as an external HD?
|
Yeah just format it.
Make sure you get all the partitions.
A lot of times that "extra" software lives on a 2nd partition.