Format an External hard disk or pendrive in Mac operating system easily by following this short post. If you are new to Mac OS learn installing Windows on Your Mac using Boot Camp.
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How to Format External Hard disk or Pendrive in Mac OS X?
Formatting a drive will erase all data and partitions on the disk, so take backup doing anything.
- Connect the external hard disk or pen drive to Mac.
- Goto Applications –> Utilities and Disk Utility.
- Click on the drive name you wish to Format.
- Select “Erase Tab” and click “Erase” button.
- In the below screenshot I am formatting a 16GB pendrive.
- Rename your external storage device name in “Name” section as shown in above screenshot.
- This will take sometime to erase the contents.
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The biggest hard drive makers are Seagate Technology and Western Digital.On May 12, 2016, SanDisk was acquired by hard drive manufacturer Western Digital in a US$19 billion deal.
Continue reading History of Hard disk in Wikipedia.
Hope this short post on Mac operating system will be highly useful for you.
