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<blockquote data-quote="r_aj" data-source="post: 637732" data-attributes="member: 53718"><p>Hi, sorry if my post wasn't clear.</p><p></p><p>What I did was basically follow the instructions that came with the hard drive - it said to run the software that came already saved on the hard drive for mac osx - did this and then I went into disk utility to partition (which is where the 257gb figure came up). I jut named the partition and hit 'partition' </p><p></p><p>All I wanted to do was to have the entire 500gb formatted for a Mac so that I could use it as back up storage.</p><p></p><p>If I was to start again I 'm assuming that would mean clearing the hard drive and using the erase function in disk utility?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="r_aj, post: 637732, member: 53718"] Hi, sorry if my post wasn't clear. What I did was basically follow the instructions that came with the hard drive - it said to run the software that came already saved on the hard drive for mac osx - did this and then I went into disk utility to partition (which is where the 257gb figure came up). I jut named the partition and hit 'partition' All I wanted to do was to have the entire 500gb formatted for a Mac so that I could use it as back up storage. If I was to start again I 'm assuming that would mean clearing the hard drive and using the erase function in disk utility? [/QUOTE]
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