You will notice a status bar appear with the progress of your format. If you need a space formatted to NTFS, use third-party solutions, like iBoysoft NTFS for Mac, to format an external hard drive and use that drive as a roundabout solution.
button to start.įrom the popup that appears click the Erase button to confirm you would like to format. MacOS only supports reading of NTFS files. You can choose: Don't Erase Data, Zero Out Data, 7-Pass Erase, or 35-Pass Erase. Disk Utility supports the following file system formats: Apple File System (APFS) : the file system is used by macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or later. Used on disks formatted for use with 68k and PowerPC Macs, the Apple Partition Map is the scheme that defines how the data is organized. Please guide which format of external hard disk (fat32 or ntfs) is compatible with my mac. Before choosing the best format for Mac external drive, you should know which file system formats are available in Disk Utility on Mac.
As the internal storage is not much, i am thinking if buying an external hard disk. button to specify how to erase the drive. I just bought a macbook pro (13.3 inches).
Launch Disk Utility from the Applications:Utilities folder.įrom the list on the left select the drive you would like to formatįrom the Volume Format dropdown select the format you would like the drive to be in.Įnter the title for your volume in the Name field. If your hard drive is an external drive, connect it to the computer. These are instructions on how to format a hard drive using Mac OS X Disk Utility.
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