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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Trying to format a new Hard Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="Chilbear" data-source="post: 880584" data-attributes="member: 32643"><p>I had a colleague bring over an external with similar no format issue. The drive was preformatted for Windows but Disk Utility would fail.</p><p></p><p>The solution was to add an Apple Partition Map, needed for PowerPC (He had a DP450 G4). Under Disk Utility>Partition>Option click on Apple Partition Map and give it a go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chilbear, post: 880584, member: 32643"] I had a colleague bring over an external with similar no format issue. The drive was preformatted for Windows but Disk Utility would fail. The solution was to add an Apple Partition Map, needed for PowerPC (He had a DP450 G4). Under Disk Utility>Partition>Option click on Apple Partition Map and give it a go. [/QUOTE]
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