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JustBeamIt - file transfer made easy. 101: How to format a Mac hard drive – Apple / Mac Software Updates, News, Apps. How you format a Mac hard drive is entirely dependent on what kind of drive you plan on formatting. For instance, is the hard drive internal or external? And if internal, has it been partitioned or are you looking to reformat the entire system to factory state? Whatever your formatting situation, this how-to guide will cover each of these step-by-step. Before you go messing around in the Disk Utility application, make sure you know what the drive is going to be used for. If it’s an external hard drive, for instance, do you plan on hooking it up solely to Macs or Windows PCs as well?

Before you start formatting any hard drives, make sure you’ve backed up your data! Formatting an external hard drive or internal hard drive partition: Step 1: If you plan on formatting an external hard drive then make sure it’s plugged in an appears on your desktop. Step 2: Open Finder (either through Spotlight or the icon in the dock). Step 3: Click on Applications (on the left). Step 4: Step 5: Step 6: Step 7: 101: How to partition a Mac hard drive – Apple / Mac Software Updates, News, Apps. When partitioning an internal hard drive, you are effectively splitting your storage space into two separate entities.

It’s just an organizational trick for the computer — there is just one physical hard drive — but it might help you keep certain files separate from others or to enact tasks that effect one part of the drive but not the rest. Partitioning is a useful tool for any computer owner and something that’s quite easy to do. Why would you want to partition a drive? Well, if you’re looking to dual-boot your device (have it run another operating system, like Linux or Windows) alongside the default Apple Mac OS on your system, then you’ll have to create a separate drive to support the other operating system. You could also use it as a Time Machine backup (which isn’t recommended as you won’t be able to restore your system if the hard drive is physically damaged) or a unique way to test out Apple’s Lion OS while still maintaining your working Snow Leopard OS.

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