How to Format your External Hard Drive in macOS Mojave | Set Up to work on Mac

macOS Mojave the latest Mac software

[geekmeee]

Outstanding tutorial. The video effects (Zoom) were used exceptionally well and anticipated everything that I was interested in looking at closer. Short, sweet and practical without a lot of extraneous or technical chatter. Well done.

[literatiglee]

Thank you! I appreciate the clarity of your directions/demonstration.

[covereau]

Thanks for the help. The Seagate help page didn't help at all but you really got me sorted out. Cheers! :)

[sophieh]

Thanx a lot, helpful tutorial to solve all my confusions and problems efficienctly.

[judymccrimmon]

Very easy to understand and I appreciate your help so much

[nicky_russell]

Thanks for a great video. Helped me a lot right now.

[remsleepchanthorrorfilms]

perfect! simple and right to the point thank you

[shutdownforever]

the option for partitioning is greyed out for me, not sure what to do. any advice

[scratchwithtay]

Thanks for this! I was about to send this back lol!

[LaMagha]

Excellent tutorial ! Thank you for the gentle and precise indications, finally I am able to use the external hard drive and backup my Mac. Just a question about a time machine popup window saying something about the information not being encrypted. Can you tell me what this means and whether it is relevant ? Thanks a lot !

[olduniverse]

Good video, but what about APFS format? Should I use APFS or MAC OS extended for MAC?

[opinionatedpolicyjunkie]

What if you have more than one Mac? I have an old MacBook (07) I no longer use, but want to back it up; I also have an iMac and MacBook Pro I want to back up. Can I do this for all of them? Time machine would only be relevant to the iMac and MacBook; would I need to make 5 partitions (1. 07 macbook, 2. MacBook files, 3. MacBook time machine, 4. iMac files, 5. iMac time machine)?

[ajinkyathakare]

I want to use the hard drive as a back up device for my Mac and sometimes I connect it to windows. So in this case i have to use ExFat, right?

[yosofya]

i used to see exfat format option on high serria but i updated to mojave and now i only see APFS formats only? please help

[matthewakande]

My Catalina OS won't see my NTFS Seagate external drive even after installing Paragon driver for Mac 10.10 and above. I went ahead to format the 2TB to exFAT but still my MacBook Air 13 running Catalina won't detect it. Any suggestions please?

[realPauloFilho]

Hi, I noticed my external hard drive automatically downloaded all my content under MAC Os extended Case sensitive journaled but I installed 1TB SSD as MAC OS extended Journaled and 16GB Ram on my Late 2011 mac book pro. I noticed sometimes my mac won't load website and it will just fail. Sometimes videos won't load either. Could this be the issue? I've Enabled Trim. Would you recommend erasing Ex hard drive and reformatting it again to Mac OS Journaled? Or does it not make a difference? Thank you!

[Neanderthal_yardy]

Hello there, I just purchased a Samsung V-NAND SSD 860 EVO SATA 6Gb/s 2TB to upgrade my mac mini (late 2014). However, when I tried to download the data migration tool and try to open it. I get the following message "Safari can’t open the file because no available application can open it." Ultimately, this is to replace my fusion drive with the SSD. My question to you is what could I be doing wrong?

[Manojshankar]

can we use APFS (Case Sensitive, Encrypted) for formatting the external SSD

used to see exfat format option on high serria but i updated to mojave and now i only see APFS formats only? please help