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My MacBook Pro's hard drive failed. I want to get a new one. The place I went said they charge for formatting a drive for mac. So I can pay them to format it, or do it myself.
I know formatting an external hard drive is pretty strait forward, but I've never done an internal one.
As my old hard drive is not working I cannot use it to turn my mac on and use the disk utility. Can I format the drive using my mac if the new hard drive is the only working hard drive I have for it?
Notes:
I have the install disk the Mac came with if I can use that for formatting.
I know formatting an external hard drive is pretty strait forward, but I've never done an internal one.
As my old hard drive is not working I cannot use it to turn my mac on and use the disk utility. Can I format the drive using my mac if the new hard drive is the only working hard drive I have for it?
Notes:
I have the install disk the Mac came with if I can use that for formatting.