Formatting an external hard drive or internal hard drive partition: Step 1: If you plan on formatting an external hard drive then make sure it’s plugged in an appears on your desktop. Also, if your current hard drive is more than 5 years old, it probably is nearing the end of its service life and needs to be replaced. 1 - purchase a second hard drive, format the new hard drive in HFS+, transfer the files from the NTFS drive into the new HFS+ external, and then format the old NTFS drive to HFS+, ExFAT, or FAT32. Find the name of the drive in the left side of the Utilities window and select it. Start the Disk Utility, located under Applications Utilities. Connect the external drive or the USB drive to the MAC. Follow these steps to ensure you have a proper space to enjoy your files for a long time to come.
Reformatting an External Hard Drive for MAC. You should then a) see it mount on the desktop, and b) automatically get a prompt to use the drive for Time Machine - if not, you can go into the Time Machine menu (top right of the screen), go to TM Preferences, and select it.
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