How to reformat drive from WD my cloud?

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How to reformat drive from WD my cloud?

I removed the drive from my WD My Cloud and want to plug it directly into my computer with a sata case. The problem is that the My Cloud drive has a unique formatting that makes it impossible to read, initialize or erase the dirve when it is plugged in.

I can see ghosted partitions or something but cannot do anything with any of them.

Is there any way to just force erase or initialize this drive so I can use it like a regular drive?

Thanks!

OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 24, 2018 2:53 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Apr 24, 2018 3:38 PM in response to Bruce Bridges

Drive Partition and Format - El Capitan or Later

Open Disk Utility in the Utilities' folder.
After Disk Utility loads select the WD drive (out-dented entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the side list.
Click on the Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. A panel should drop down.
In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to APFS (SSDs only) or Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
Click on the Apply button and click on the Done button when it is activated.
Quit Disk Utility.