

If you’ve encountered the WD Quick Formatter Runtime error, it stands for a software or hardware problem that prevents the program from working correctly.The drive is taken by other applications.

The WD My Passport or other external drives may conflict with another device (on the same IDE cable). Some viruses or spyware program is conflict with this format utility. Hard drive is not setup correctly in BIOS, which may result in that Windows cannot detect it correctly.In general, you might in one of following situations. Many factors account for WD Quick Formatter not working, from poor external drive contact to hard drive corruption. Have you encountered WD Quick Formatter failed problem during the format process in Windows? Other similar situations like WD Quick Formatter error, WD Quick Formatter doesn’t work, WD Quick Formatter cannot open device etc. Why would it be like this? How could I successfully format the drive? Please help It reads: WD external drive format failed. However, when I use the WD Quick Formatter to format the drive, it running smoothly at the beginning yet gives me a prompt after a while. Actually, either format or erase would be fine. Recently, I’d like to back up all contents on the external drive, format it and then send it to my sister. I have a 1TB My Passport drive that works just fine.
