I have a Western Digital external drive.

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doraleediane

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The WD I have is old. I bought it in 2000. Would that be too outdated for a new pc Windows 10 Could I get drivers for that. Thank you. Doralee
 
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If you want to use it as a secondary storage drive, you can open Disk Management (How to access Disk Management in Windows to manage hard drives), click with the right-mouse button on each of the drive's partitions and select "delete volume". Once the whole drive's capacity shows up as "unallocated" (it looks like a partition with a black border instead of a blue one), you can follow this tutorial on how to partition and format it as you see fit: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and Mac OSX.

One the other hand, if you want to use it as a main OS drive and want to do that while installing Windows 10 on it, you should follow this tutorial: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html.
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Hey there, doraleediane..

I though I had an old WD drive (a 2007 Passport HDD), but you've blown me away. Generally speaking you shouldn't need any drivers, but then again back in 2000 even Windows XP had not been rolled out yet. So perhaps the best answer here would be - give it a try and find out. There's an enormous gap in technology generations, however I wouldn't be surprised if the HDD is recognized because of Windows' default mass storage device driver.

Hope that helps. Please let me know how it goes.
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If you want to use it as a secondary storage drive, you can open Disk Management (How to access Disk Management in Windows to manage hard drives), click with the right-mouse button on each of the drive's partitions and select "delete volume". Once the whole drive's capacity shows up as "unallocated" (it looks like a partition with a black border instead of a blue one), you can follow this tutorial on how to partition and format it as you see fit: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and Mac OSX.

One the other hand, if you want to use it as a main OS drive and want to do that while installing Windows 10 on it, you should follow this tutorial: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html.
 
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