And the most outstanding one shoul be its mighty compatibility. Well, why need you to format WD hard drive to FAT32?Īlthough FAT32 performs slowly than NTFS in Windows, it has inherent advantages. Western Digital (WD) hard drives, especially portable hard drives, are always formatted with NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (Mac) by default, so that it can be better compatible with that operating system. Why need Western Digital FAT32 formatting tool?