he wants to know how to wipe it clean and reformat in fat32 so he can read/write to it on the mac. This guides also works on other version of Mac (Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro). My friend just got a mac mini, and the hard drive he used to have hooked up to his windows computer can't be accessed by the mac, cause it's in ntfs format. It presents options about how you want to format your drive. In the list of Devices and Drives, right-click the drive you’d like to format and select Format in the menu that appears. Your Macbook will automatically restart when the download and installation is complete. In any File Explorer window, browse to This PC. Now, just wait until the installation is complete. Note: You must not select the drive “Recovery HD”, because this contains the recovery drive where OS X Utilities is installed or boot.Ĩ. Now select the drive “Macintosh HD” or usually the drive on the right side, then press “Install”. If you have time reading the software license agreement just scroll and read it. On OS X installation page just press the “Continue” button, and an verification pop up will prompt you “To download and restore OS X, your computer’s eligibility will be verified with Apple.” just press “Continue”Ħ. Right click on your external hard drive and click Format.

After you have connected the external hard drive, launch 'My Computer' and you would be able to see the list of drives on the left side of the window or in the main window. Launch 'My Computer' and Choose 'Format'. Now select Reinstall OS X, then click “Continue”.ĥ. Simply follow the following steps: Step 1. After reformatting go back to “OS X Utilities” menu.Ĥ. Select the drive that you want to reformat and erase all data, then click the “Erase” button. Select Disk Utility to reformat your hard drive or make partition.ģ. Restart or Turn on your Mac, after the shime sound press and hold “OPTION” key from your keyboard until the OS X utilities appear.Ģ. So to start with, We need the following checklist item before reformatting:ġ.

Reformatting on Mac OS is definitely much quick and easier than Windows. It’s my first time to reformat a Mac OS and it’s quite different from Windows interface.

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