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Does the WD Quick Formatter erase your password?

I have a 500gb hard drive. I plugged it in earlier today and everything was on there, no problem. Well now I just plugged it in and everything I had saved seems to be gone. I’ve recently got a new laptop so I was trying to install SmartWare. I’m thinking that maybe I ran the Quick Formatter without reading, and erased everything by accident (I don’t remember). It still asks for my password, though. So I guess that’s the only way to find out whether I did this or not. Thanks for the help.

Hello,

It will only remove the data not the settings.

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