How To Format A External Hard Drive Mac

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Let's show you how to format an external Mac hard drive.

In this video, I walk you through the steps to format an external Mac hard drive. First, plug in the hard drive to your Mac and then open the hard drive icon that pops up on your desktop and ensure that it's empty or that you have backup any files on the drive as they will be erased during the formating. Now use COMMAND + SPACE to open Spotlight Search and then search for the app Disk Utility. Open Disk Utility and then click on the External hard drive and then click on Erase at the top of the application screen. Here you can choose a new format at this point and then click on Erase. The drive is now erased and reformatted.

I hope this video helped solve your problem. App still not working? If so, drop your question in a comment below!

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TrevorNace

simple, it worked, but you did not explain which choice to make Mac Journaled or Case-Sensitive and Journaled. My Mac Expert says Just Journaled. Thank you Trevor, appreciate the simplicity.

DaleDreherInLA

I watched 3 videos before this one none of them explain how to find disc utility properly so the process of the whole video made no sence. Very helpful thank you!

Nadellart

formatted a 2tb crucial P5 PLUS GEN AND

paologianono

I'm shocked how much easier this tutorial was than following Seagate's instructions

OutdoorScienceDad

I have a seagate 4TB hard rive that is only showing me 32GB. After doing what you and many other videos have said to do, it now lily shows it to be 16.8MB!!! how do I restore my hard rive back to its original capacity??? Anyone?? On a MacBook Pro????

sharigill

Great JobTrevor I've watched quite a few tutorials and yours is by far the simplest and easiest to follow.Great Job.

Hugebear

Do you know if formatting as Exfat will cause me any issues in the future? I'd like to format for both Windows and Mac but I am afraid to do it and cause issues later down the road. I mainly keep everything on my Mac, but I wanted it formatted for Windows also in case I wanted to use the hard drive on our other computer.

womworld

Blessup bro i been struggling with this.

roobasham

I didn’t realize seagate hd needs formatting. This saved me on how to do this! Thanks

adambrenengen

Mine has a Scheme third dropdown after the format. Which one to select bettefor the 3?

endryudzhenn

Hi, you made it look easy and that's what I did before watching your video. I did the Mac Extended Journal Format, and it was gone!
Light was on and not blinking, I could not eject so I Shut Down computer, light went off. Tried again but computer could not see external hard drive anymore so I took it to Geek Squad. And after about 50 mins I think they got it good? They had same problem. did they have to go on Mac Website?? They would not say..

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