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Format new external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="mknabster" data-source="post: 945536" data-attributes="member: 31565"><p>I would try plugging in your external, and going into the partition tab in disk utility. Then format the drive for the GUID partition table under options, that way you should be able to format it as any Mac format. The Master boot record option that is in there is for NTFS and FAT. I have 2 drives formatted this way under GUID, and 2 drives under Master Boot Record. The GUIDs can't be seen on PCs, unless you have a program like Macdrive installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mknabster, post: 945536, member: 31565"] I would try plugging in your external, and going into the partition tab in disk utility. Then format the drive for the GUID partition table under options, that way you should be able to format it as any Mac format. The Master boot record option that is in there is for NTFS and FAT. I have 2 drives formatted this way under GUID, and 2 drives under Master Boot Record. The GUIDs can't be seen on PCs, unless you have a program like Macdrive installed. [/QUOTE]
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