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Toshiba External Hard Drive not recognized by Macbook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="microsnook" data-source="post: 1349053" data-attributes="member: 218122"><p>Plug in the external drive, and then ignore anything that pops up.</p><p></p><p>Go into disk utility, should be in your app tray area. </p><p></p><p>There you will see your main HDD and then your external HDD identified by its name. </p><p>BE SURE YOU CLICK ON YOUR EXTERNAL DRIVE (select it)</p><p></p><p>Then go to the partition tab at the top right(ish) and click one or however many partitions you want and then make sure (to the right of the size of the partitions) the format for the external HDD is Mac OS Journaled Extended!</p><p></p><p>Click apply (bottom right area) and then it will wipe the drive clean and format it for your Mac and create the partitions you wanted.</p><p></p><p>You will probably only want a single partition.</p><p></p><p>If your external drive is twice the size as your internal, I would make two partitions and then use one for time machine and then one for carbon copy cloner to have a bootable back up of your current set up. So if your HDD ever failed, you could use your computer form the external drive.</p><p></p><p>Let me know if you don't understand anything please</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="microsnook, post: 1349053, member: 218122"] Plug in the external drive, and then ignore anything that pops up. Go into disk utility, should be in your app tray area. There you will see your main HDD and then your external HDD identified by its name. BE SURE YOU CLICK ON YOUR EXTERNAL DRIVE (select it) Then go to the partition tab at the top right(ish) and click one or however many partitions you want and then make sure (to the right of the size of the partitions) the format for the external HDD is Mac OS Journaled Extended! Click apply (bottom right area) and then it will wipe the drive clean and format it for your Mac and create the partitions you wanted. You will probably only want a single partition. If your external drive is twice the size as your internal, I would make two partitions and then use one for time machine and then one for carbon copy cloner to have a bootable back up of your current set up. So if your HDD ever failed, you could use your computer form the external drive. Let me know if you don't understand anything please [/QUOTE]
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