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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1865513" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>When you set up a NEW External Drive or one that you can afford to ERASE, attach it to the Mac, then Open Disk Utility (DU) (found in Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.</p><p></p><p>On the left you will see the Mac's Internal Drive and attached external drives.</p><p></p><p>Locate your one and Click on the top name of the Drive, not the indent. Then Click on Erase and make the following choices:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]32674[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My Drive was called Integral Courier Media, as shown. You can choose another name if you wish, then in the boxes below, choose your Format (exFAT) by using the arrowheads and with Scheme, again use the arrowheads to choose GUID Partition Map. The click on Erase.</p><p></p><p>NB NB NB This will ERASE ALL CONTENT and create a fresh Drive. So you must make sure that you have a copy - presumably on your Windows PC - of the data. Then you copy the data from the PC on to the Fresh Drive and the Mac will read it.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1865513, member: 83420"] When you set up a NEW External Drive or one that you can afford to ERASE, attach it to the Mac, then Open Disk Utility (DU) (found in Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. On the left you will see the Mac's Internal Drive and attached external drives. Locate your one and Click on the top name of the Drive, not the indent. Then Click on Erase and make the following choices: [ATTACH type="full"]32674[/ATTACH] My Drive was called Integral Courier Media, as shown. You can choose another name if you wish, then in the boxes below, choose your Format (exFAT) by using the arrowheads and with Scheme, again use the arrowheads to choose GUID Partition Map. The click on Erase. NB NB NB This will ERASE ALL CONTENT and create a fresh Drive. So you must make sure that you have a copy - presumably on your Windows PC - of the data. Then you copy the data from the PC on to the Fresh Drive and the Mac will read it. Ian [/QUOTE]
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