How to Format An External Hard Drive for Mac

Author: David A. Cox
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It's a good idea to backup your data for your mac using Time Machine. Any hard drive can be formatted for Mac and here is how you do it. Take our FREE classes at http://PCClassesOnline.com

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  1. Man I almost lost 5 years worth of memories because this guy failed to mention that doing this clears your hard drive. I would be so fucking devastated. This guy needs to edit this video. NOT COOL. RIP to all of those who lost all of their special moments with family and what not. Glad I didn't empty my trash. Geez!
  2. HOW DO YOU DO THIS WITHOUT DELETING YOUR EXSISTING FILES
  3. Thank you for all your help! This worked just perfectly!
  4. I found it very hard to follow because the print was so small. I followed by listening but because I could barely see what you were illustrating I will have to listen again.
  5. Great Help Thank you so much
  6. Can you help me? I have put a password on my external hard drive WD,
    but after some time I forgot the password,
    you can provide solutions on how to reopen the external WD me without deleting the files
    in it? because the files are very important. I beg help and solution, thank you.
  7. Thank you. Trying to help someone do this -- couldn't remember one of the steps. Done the same thing with 2 other drives -- just forgot. Thanks for your instructions -- so I just sent a link. ;-)
  8. What the crap...why is every single video about external drives about using them for back up...does anyone have a video for how to configure a hardrive just for added storage? you know...THAT OTHER PRIMARY REASON for why external harddrives were invented??? especially for those who are running out of disk space
  9. Extremely helpful and quick, thanks for a great tutorial!
  10. How do I format it if I want to use it to backup files interchangeably between my pc and mac?
  11. Thank you; this was very helpful.
  12. Hi, I am wondering about formatting my external to FAT32 as i wanted my hard drive to work on both my mac and pc. However, I really need Time Machine to back it up and I am concerned about the comments in this tutorial saying the Time Machine backup will fail if the hard drive fails. Isn't the whole point of Time Machine to have your data there if the hard drive fails? Does anyone have any advice about what I should do? Thanks!
  13. Instructions start at 1:28 for anyone wanting to get right to it
  14. That is cannot use on MacOs Sierra
  15. why not exfat?
  16. this was beyond helpful
  17. Once formatted via your method, can I still edit it as usual on a Windows, or do I have to re-format it back each time?
  18. Great video thanks, I also like Seagate, but what if I want to use the hard drive on both a pc and a Mac interchangeably? Do I format as ms dos FAT in that case? Or what format do I use? So that I can use my Seagate to transfer files from a pc to a Mac and vice-versa? Thanks for any advice.
  19. Hey all, I'm having permission issues with saving my Final Cut Pro videos through my hard drive. If I follow these steps should I be fine? If not please help!!! 😩
  20. fantastic