Formatting wd external hard drive

i need to format my hdd (WDBAAU0015HBK-01) for it to work with my WD tv live but i tried download the Formatting Utility

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=304&sid=34&lang=en

but it does not support windows 7… any help would be great, thanks

You shouldn’t neet a formatting utility – just use the regular Win 7 process:

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-format-a-hard-drive

mkelley wrote:

You shouldn’t neet a formatting utility – just use the regular Win 7 process:

 

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-format-a-hard-drive

ok cool, i thought that was the way to go but was told to download that tool, anyway thanks its working but is super slow.

A full format, as opposed to a “quick format”, can take over 8 hours for large drives.

It’s a bit late now, since you’ve started the full format, but you could have deleted the partition, created a new partition in the empty space, and then given the new partition a “quick format”.