formatting external hard drive to imac I recently bought a new iMac and am trying to use a Seagate Ultra Touch 2T external hard drive to use with Time Machine. After spending more than an hour on the phone with Apple Care, it was determined that the Seagate external hard drive was read ...
Thank you. The first Internal Drive: The second Internal Drive: The Disk Image: 5 years ago 580 3 Unable to reformat a partitioned hard drive for Catalina Running Sierra on a late 2013 27" iMac. Wanted to try Catalina, so partitioned the IHD with plenty of room. Installed Catalina o...
External hard drive disk error Hello. After installing Catalina from Sierra operating system onto my desktop iMac, noticing issues with all (4) Lacie Porsche External Hard drives - Format: Mac os Extended (Journaled). They do mount and when opened everything works fine, however, in disk utilit...
I purchased a 2TB External HD online but it says it is an EXFAT drive. What should I do to format it for my 2019 iMac running Big Sur? 3 years ago 93 2 I have a macOS Ventura 13.6.2 and want to format an external LaCie hard drive. All I want to do is to format the new...
Normally I would say, "oh well, bad drive"...but I plugged it in to my Macbook Air and can access it with no problem. I reformatted the drive, but but nothing changed, runs fine on the Air, but crashes the iMac. 4 years ago 548 4 5 replies Sort By: Rank Page content ...
All OS X boot hard drives (not Solid State Disks) should be futher erased with the Security Option: Zero All Data or move the slider one spot to the right, this has a effect of wiping all data off the drive and also eliminates bad sector issues that can prevent a drive from formatting...