![]() ![]() Well, is there an external hard drive that could be shared between Mac and Windows PC? Of course, there is. Want to format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows PC? Do you know how to do this work easily? This MiniTool article will show you specific methods to make external hard drive compatible with Mac and PC, which are easy and safe to complete.Īs we know, external hard drives are widely used to backup data or interchange files among different computers. Formatting an external disk or flash drive in macOS Sierra is little different that formatting it in Mavericks and lower versions of OS X. Format an External Disk or a Flash Drive for Mac using Disk Utility in OS X El Capitan and macOS Siera. Step 2 In the Finder menu navigate to 'GoUtilities', inside the Utilities window you will spot a 'Disk Utility' program, double click on it to enter the program. Then, click on the 'Finder' icon to enter the 'Finder' menu. To format Write Protected USB drive, connect it to your Mac, the system should successfully detect your drive. Now type the following command to erase and format the external. ![]() In our case here the disk identifier is disk2. Note down the disk identifier of the disk you want to format. Type the following command to see the list of all the drives and volumes. Step 1: Create a NTFS Partition and a FAT32 Partition Please run MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, then delete all the original NTFS or HFS+ partition(s), and create a new NTFS partition as well as a FAT32 partition, and the latter will be formatted to HFS+ in Mac machine. By this way, you can easily format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows.
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