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    format WD usb hard drive

    When I go to device manager, the WD drive shows up under "Disk Drives" and "DVD/CD ROM drives". If I right click on either of these, the only options are to Uninstall or Disable, I Disabled the WD under DVD/CD but cannot Uninstall it. - Unistal does nothing but say it is uni stalling the device...
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    format WD usb hard drive

    Thanks for your quick reply. Problem is, when I plug it in to the pc, how do I format it as anything? I can't find the format option when it appears as a CD drive.
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    format WD usb hard drive

    I have a usb WD My Passport Elite hard drive which was originally set up on a macbook. It worked ok there. I would like to use it as an external hd for my W7 pc. I reformatted the drive as FAT32 on the macbook but this left WD Smartware on the drive. (I gather this makes the drive into a...