How to format an external drive

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I have an external drive that I want to use as my Time Machine drive. It was previously formatted on my PC. How do I format it in the Mac format please?:|
 
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Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility

that program will allow you to format a drive, it is also useful for repairing disk permissions on apple drives
 
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louishen said:
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility

that program will allow you to format a drive, it is also useful for repairing disk permissions on apple drives
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Thanks. I have checked the Disc Utility out but it gives me several Mac formats to choose from. Which should I choose.
 
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mac OS extended (journaled ) should be fine
 
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louishen said:
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility

that program will allow you to format a drive, it is also useful for repairing disk permissions on apple drives
Click to expand...

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Came in here to say this.

Good luck
 
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Before you go ahead with it, I suggest you read up on that 10GB limit problem that people were having with Time Machine and Windows formatted drives. I'm not sure about the specifics of the situation, but you might want to look through this: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/11/07.12.shtml (as well as google your way through).

I meant this just as a warning, in most cases it should go fine (as did mine).
 
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what I did was,I journaled the drive on the mac, and then I downloaded Mac Drive for my PC. It works like a charm.
 

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