WD My Book Essential, 2TB, 1.008 Firmware, SmartWare 1.4.1.1 Running Windows 7 Professional, 32-Bit. Drive is recognized, and works fine. I used it to back up my son’s laptop when upgrading him to a new one. Now I want to remove his data from my drive. Since there’s nothing of mine on it, I wa…

If you are trying to format go into disk management delete the volume then try format with windows. This will delete all data. Joe