Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

reformatting

  1. Eagle 20

    How to reformat portable external hard drive?

    My WD 2TB My Passport was replaced and I cannot find the guide I used to reformat it with Disc Utility before. All I can recall is it had a partition with 250GB formatted to backup my Mac, and the remainder I believe was formatted differently to store my files. But I cannot remember exactly how...
  2. tscoke

    External HD shows up as multiple devices

    I have a 1TB external Toshiba HD that I want to reformat into a clean, single partition. This drive was previously used with the now defunct Transporter Sync. When I connect the drive to my Macbook Air running High Sierra it shows up as four separate volumes. I cant' figure out how to remove...
    • tscoke
    • Thread
    • external hard drive partition reformatting
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  3. B

    Using a ex hardrive without reformating

    I am a photographer and artist. normally i use pc so my external hard drive is formatted in ntfs i wouldn't mind changing the format if i had a place for everything. my hard drive is the focal point of everything i do. i have about 1 and a quarter terabytes of info on it. i have nothing large...
Top Bottom
Back