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Are you looking for a reliable WD partition tool that can help you flexibly manage partitions on your HDD, SSD, or external hard drives? Stay here and follow this tutorial to fully manage your Western Digital hard drive partition with ease now.
Western Digital, a renowned storage device producer, provides data storage solutions to help customers to capture and preserve their valuable data on multiple types of storage devices, including HDD, SSD, USB flash drive, SD card, memory card, etc.
To make use of the WD hard drive partitions, you may need to manage and partition hard drives on Western Digital hard drives. Here in the below, we'll show you how to get a reliable WD partition manager software and partition your WD HDD/SSD in only a few clicks.
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Here is a list of cases that you'll need to turn to a reliable partition tool for help:
- Resize partitions - extending or shrinking
- Create partitions (logical or primary)
- Merge two partitions into one
- Migrate OS from the old drive
- Format partitions to fit operating system (e.g. format WD hard drive for Mac)
- Copy partitions to another drive for backup
- Wipe WD disk
- More...
WD Partition Manager Software Is Available Here to Free Download
So how do you manage to partition your Western Digital hard drive in Windows 10/8/7? Reliable third-party free partition manager software - EaseUS Partition Master can help.
It is an all-in-one disk management tool provided by EaseUS software for partitioning and managing WD hard drives, external hard drives, and other portable storage devices.
Manage and Partition WD Hard Drive with EaseUS Partition Master
So how do I partition a WD external hard drive? EaseUS Partition Master is a lightweight Windows application that all levels of Windows users can apply partitions flexibly and manage hard disks in Windows 10/8/7, Vista, and XP.
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Follow the tutorial guides below to manage your Western Digital hard drives, SSDs, or external storage media with ease now:
Tutorial 1: Partition Hard Drive
Step-by-Step Guide to Partition WD Hard Drive:
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master to check for free space at the Partition Manager section.
- If your hard drive has unallocated space, jump to Step 3 to create partition.
- If the hard drive has no unallocated space, continue with Step 2.
Step 2. Shrink a disk partition to create unallocated space.
Right-click on the target drive partition with a lot free space and select "Resize/Move".
![decrease partition step 1](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/resize-move-partition-1.png)
Drag either end of the partition rightwards or leftwards to shrink the partition size so as to get ample unallocated space. You can visually know how much space you've decreased in the "Partition size" area. Click "OK".
![decrease partition step 2](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/resize-move-partition-2.png)
Click "Execute xx Task" and then "Apply" to save all the changes.
![decrease partition step 3](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/resize-move-partition-5.png)
Go back to Partition Manager, there should be unallocated space appearing on the same disk and you can continue with the next step to create new partition on your hard drive.
Step 3. Create a new partition with unallocated space on the target hard drive.
Right-click on the unallocated space and choose "Create".
![create partition step 1](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/create-partition-1.png)
Customize the partition size, partition drive letter, partition label, file system (NTFS, FAT32, EXT2/3/4, exFAT) and more in the Advanced Settings. Click "OK".
![create partition step 2](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/create-partition-2.png)
Finally, click "Execute * Task" and "Apply" to complete creating partition with the unallocated space on your disk. Repeat the steps to partition a hard drive and get many more partitions.
![create partition step 3](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/create-partition-3.png)
Tutorial 2: Format Western Digital Hard Drive
EaseUS Partition Master can also work as a WD quick formatter that anyone can apply to format WD partitions to NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, or EXT3.
You can even use it to format WD external hard drive for Mac on Windows PC. If you want to do so, please set the file system as FAT32 for better compatibility on Mac.Note that formatting will remove all existing data on the WD disk. Therefore, remember to back up your data first. Then take the steps as shown below to start formatting the WD hard drive:
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master, right-click the partition on your external hard drive/USB/SD card which you want to format and choose the "Format" option.
![Format External Hard Drive/USB/SD Card - 1](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/format-partition-external-1.png)
Step 2. Assign a new partition label, file system (NTFS/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4/exFAT), and cluster size to the selected partition, then click "OK".
![Format External Hard Drive/USB/SD Card - 2](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/format-partition-external-2.png)
Step 3. In the Warning window, click "Yes" to continue.
![Format External Hard Drive/USB/SD Card - 3](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/format-partition-external-3.png)
Step 4. Click the "Execute 1 Task(s)" button in the top-left corner to review the changes, then click "Apply" to start formatting your external hard drive/USB/SD card.
![Format External Hard Drive/USB/SD Card - 4](/images/en/screenshot/partition-manager/screenshots/format-partition-external-4.png)
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Besides the above two features, you can also use EaseUS Partition Master to execute some advanced operations on your WD internal or external hard drive, such as:
Take Action to Make Use of WD Hard Drive
Some of you may think of using the Windows built-in Disk Management, which meets the basic needs of [artitioning a hard drive]. It allows WD users to extend, shrink, delete, and format volumes only, and even sometimes it's unavailable in those functions.
However, if your WD hard drive needs more management beyond the capability of Windows Disk Management, don't hesitate to download EaseUS Partition Master - the magic Western Digital partitioning software for help.
It's your turn, and take action to make use of your Western Digital hard drive now.How Can We Help You
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Updated by Larissa
Larissa has rich experience in writing technical articles and is now a professional editor at EaseUS. She is good at writing articles about data recovery, disk cloning, disk partitioning, data backup, and other related knowledge. Her detailed and ultimate guides help users find effective solutions to their problems. She is fond of traveling, reading, and riding in her spare time.
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Product Reviews
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I love that the changes you make with EaseUS Partition Master Free aren't immediately applied to the disks. It makes it way easier to play out what will happen after you've made all the changes. I also think the overall look and feel of EaseUS Partition Master Free makes whatever you're doing with your computer's partitions easy.
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Partition Master Free can Resize, Move, Merge, Migrate, and Copy disks or partitions; convert to local, change label, defragment, check and explore partition; and much more. A premium upgrade adds free tech support and the ability to resize dynamic volumes.
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It won't hot image your drives or align them, but since it's coupled with a partition manager, it allows you do perform many tasks at once, instead of just cloning drives. You can move partitions around, resize them, defragment, and more, along with the other tools you'd expect from a cloning tool.
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