External Hard Drive Set Up Guide for Mac 2025

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[photosbyjf]

my T7 shield arrived today. I have seen many external drive installs and was fine, but when I went into disk utility it did NOT give option for APFS. I have a brand new M4 Mini. I did format as Macos extended

[greggpowell]

How do you transfer the data from the external hard drive attached to my PC to my new Mac and its external hard drive?

[alexroseg]

What if I do not have Scheme drop-down menu options on my external hard drive?

[herewegoagain]

I have multiple macs and I want to do a time machine backup, do i have to make a "time machine" partition for each separate mac?