How Should You Format An External Drive For a Mac?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- macmost.com/e-2975 When you buy a new external drive for your Mac, it is not going to be formatted for your Mac. You should use Disk Utility to set the drive up right before using it.
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00:00 Intro
00:30 New Drives Are Probably Formatted For Windows
01:19 Formatting a Drive Erases It
01:41 Format Using Disk Utility
02:50 Choosing the Right Format
05:49 Time Machine Formats Automatically
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This was masterfully done. Concise. Told us what we need to hear, nothing more. Rare on TH-cam.
and very helpful to absolute beginners. We are not all tech geeks!
THANKS A MILLION GARY!!! I've tried 3 different SSDs in my Mac docking station and you're the first person who's told me that they're not being read because they haven't been formatted. In the absence of any other instruction, I assumed they would be Plug and play. My new disc is now working fine.
Excellent video! Just purchased a 4 TB NVme for my external enclosure - the reminders at the end helped me format safely. Thanks for the peace of mind!
This is one of the best TH-cam tutorials I have ever seen. Clear communication, each step explained as to why and how, and anticipates alternative steps depending on your situation.
As always, very useful information, well explained and with all the information you need. Thank You Gary!
Your clarity is a gift, thank you.
Love the way you get right into a topic, state it in simple terms, and then end the video promptly (rather than vloggers who want to tell their life stories along with a plethora of if's and's or but's)
thanks for a great video. Your delivery is perfect. Straight to the point without a bunch of run on fluff. Thanks for the help!!!
Thank you so much for a concise and well-put-together video. Really helped me get set up with my hard drive. Feel well-informed and ready to go!
Once again, I learned something I didn't know. I've always pre-formatted Time Machine drives. I had no idea TM would do that on its own, automatically. Amazing. Thanks, Gary.
I've spent HOURS trying to fix something you explained in less than 7 mins, plus you taught me a lot. Thank you so much!
Thank you Gary, I appreciate your excellent MacMost channel! I was just searching for this information, magically this post popped up. Timely for me! Thank you!
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! I always learn something new to me! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️
Great advice! Loved especially how you mentioned Time Machine at the end, that's exactly what I needed. Made it simple. Thank you!
You are brilliant, simple and straight forward, no BS at all, unlike some other TH-camrs. Super easy to understand for a Mac dummy like me LOL. Keep up the good work!! 💪💪
Yes! Great to be shown some "technical" flows to round out how we interact with the Mac. Thanks!
All the videos I have watched thus far, have been extremely useful.
Your channel is the best. Thank you for all your joyful effort.
I kept getting an error when I tried this earlier, but you went more in depth than any other tutorial, and I was able to successfully do it. Thank you.
Great stuff, Gary...no one else does it the way you do.
I really appreciate your broad knowledge for making Mac eco-system very beautiful for users 😇
Such a solid video! Exactly the info I needed and no fluff. Nice work! 🙌
Short and Helpful! Just what I needed to know.
Hi Gary, thank you so much for this easy to follow video. I'd like to add my experience of not seeing APFS in the first instance of trying to reformat an external drive in case others experience it too. When I plugged in my LaCie etxernal drive (came formatted as exFAT), Disk Utility showed Master Boot Record under Scheme, and only Mac OS Extended and FAT were offered under Format. I had to change the Scheme to GUID before APFS (and its variations) was offered under Format. Once both APFS and GUID are selected, I could reformat the drive correctly.
Thanks for guiding me on how to configure my new 4TB SSD on my new Mac Studio! Excellent instructions and explanation on all the terms and execution! Kudos!
Another very informative and useful tutorial, thanks Gary.
Vielen Dank, Dein Video kommt zur richtigen Zeit. Gestern habe ich die externe Festplatte für meinen neuen Mac bekommen.
Thanks! I wish I'd seen this a few months ago when I needed a new Mac hard drive. But this info sure will help for the future.
For maximum compatibility with Windows and Linux systems (especially legacy versions like Windows 7), if I format a drive with exFAT, I always use the MBR partition scheme. Windows tends to be picky when using GUID, and sometimes throws strange errors or doesn't even show the drive in File Explorer.
Another great, helpful video. Thank you so much Gary!!
Super video, concise and clear explanation - exactly what I needed. Thank you so much!!
Thank you for this. I am not tech savvy so I appreciate videos like this.
Thanks! I had a very unique problem with running a program on my computer and this ended up being the key
This totally helped me today on with my new M3 with an external hub /SSD. I was formatting the wrong part of the drive. Thank you so much!!!!
Amazing video and straignt to the point! Thank you!
Always come back !! Thank you for your videos ))
This really helped! Thank you so much.
I could not for the life of me figure out how to transfer files from meh old Mac mini to my brand new Mac mini. Using the Time Machine was the answer, since I didn't have a spare monitor and keyboard. The only thing different about your tutorial from my own experience is that my external disc would not show up in Time Machine as an option until I manually formatted it to APFS in Disc Utility. It did not automatically do it nor gave me the option to do it. But it worked after all! Thanks for your great videos. I've learned lots from you since becoming a Mac person a couple of years ago.-
Had to change Scheme first to GUID, then I could change Format to APFS. Another great info filled video!
Thanks! I didn't see APFS initially as an option and came to the comments to see if anyone had the same issue. This helped me find it!
Same, as the options were Journaled, ExFAT, Windows etc in the drop list, but once choose the scheme from Master Boot to GUID the 'Convert to APFS' came up, made 2 500gb partitions 1 for my saved stuff, and 1 for Time Machine, though maybe went too big on the 500gb partition for time machine lol, am sure can reduce it.
This is exactly the info I needed! Thanks!
You were incredibly helpful. Thank you!
APFS case sensitive can be helpful, too! What that option allows you to do is to specify filenames with different cases (i.e. upper case and lower case) and the filesystem would keep track of that case sensitivity. This can be useful if you use case sensitivity to differentiate versions of files for instance (i.e. two files have the same name but different letter casing to indicate version).
Be sure that any applications you might wish to use are compatible with a case-sensitive format. Some are not.
I really don't get why "case sensitive' existed.. because you can do that anyway even .... do have a "unique" option, just for something you can already do,.. doesn't really do anything difference. Apart from the fact you don't have to manually rename.
Invaluable! Thank you, Gary! Good to know that Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is still ok to use-my photos are stored on an external drive with that format. I see I created it in 2013, which probably explains why it's the old format!
Yes my drives are formatted with mac os too. It’s been so long I didn’t know there is a newer, better format I should be using now
APFS format is not backwards compatible!
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Thanks again for another wonderful and informative video!
Concise and helpful - thank you!
Very useful info! Thanks!!
Thank you for your thorough explanation.
Hope you found it useful and my answer is thank you Gary it was useful for me 😀 👍
Very useful. One tip I can add is that if you do wish to encrypt do it at the start because if you later on decide to encrypt a disk it can take days to reformat "on the fly"
Phenomenal video! Thank you so much for all the info!!!
Another brilliant video…..thanks Gary 👍👍👍👍
THANK YOU!! this was so helpful, i was scared i was going to have to download dodgy drive readers but this works perfectly!
Thank you for your wonderful explanations of everything.
Thank you for you video and explanation. Very valuable.
I love your channel !!! Thanks for all the great content.
Thank you very much for this detailed video. You made my life eaasier.
Thank you, Gary, for another useful video!
This video saved me. Thanks so much.
Extremely helpful, thank you.
Excellent tutorial, thank you!
This helped me. Great video. Thanks!
Thank you!!!! This was incredibly helpful!!!!!
This was very helpful, thanks!!!
Great explanation. Thank you
You’re Godsend! Love your video content. Just bought Samsung T7 ssd going to use it for Time Machine for my Mac mini Pro.
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This was very helpful. Thanks
Great video. Thank you for the help!
Thank you so much for the knowledge.
Hiya thank you a million. When I tried to connect my new hard drive and set it up with Time Machine, it wouldn’t recognise it was there unless I formatted it. Once I did that I’ve been able to set up my Time Machine. It didn’t have a PFS available to me though, so I put it on the older version that you chatted about. Thank you 1 million times once again for your wonderful video.❤
thanks for the help Gary!
Makes me consider all the old thumb drives I have and what to do with them. Thanks.
Very useful, thank you. 😀
Helped a lot, thank you detailed explanation:)))
this is GREAT! thank you for making this!
it was very helpful, always amazing videos
Thanks for the comprehensive breakdown Sir. Best... Bobby :) :) :)
Thnx :) Have a good day and weekend :) very useful
Thank you so so much! So helpful!
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Very useful, thanks!
You saved me! Thought 90% of the storage on my SD-card was permanently lost. But now I have full capacity again
Thank you!!!!! super clear!!!!
Thank you for this !
Thank you Gary!
great review!!!!
Thank you! This guide is perfectly timed for me. I do allot of photography, and my old 2015 iMac is at capacity. I’m having it cleaned, upgraded, and updated. I also have a new 24” iMac on order for the living room. When they’re both set up at home I want an SSD for back up, and photo’ storage that I can access on both computers. Also something that I can use for storage when I’m on the road. I usually load photo’s from the SD card into my iPad with a dongle. I don’t know if my current iPad can even be connected to an external drive. (It’s about the same age an my iMac.) But my next one should have that capacity, and I’ll use the SSD for storage from the iPad as well.
A backup SSD is a waste of money.
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Great info! 👍
Thank you so much for the help!
Thanks so much! Saved me from buying a replacement drive unnecessarily.
Brilliant, thanks!
VERY useful!! Thanks :)
Thanks Gary!
Thanks for the help!
Thx Gary ❤.
Thank you!
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Thanks!
This was really helpful. I've been trying to figure out why my SSD would not show up as being recognised in any other device aside from the Mac I had initially set it up on, using APFS format. Tried connecting it to any other device and it never worked until erasing it and reformatting it as ExFAT. Working now on other devices, Mac and Windows. Thanks! :)
thanks for you help didn't know what to do when i got a new external drive. it wasn't formatted for a mac that was all.