This process will erase all data on the hard drive, meaning this is best to pursue when you first get a new external drive for backups and file storage. You can partition a drive without formatting, but we’ll cover this process anyway because many third party hard drives ship with Windows-centric FAT32 or NTFS file systems which, while they are compatible for dual use with both Mac and Windows, are not compatible for using as a Time Machine drive, and as they are not exclusively formatted for the Mac, will have other limitations which are not desirable for exclusive Mac OS X usage. The first set of steps involves formatting the drive. Step 1: Format the Drive to “Mac OS Extended” Compatibility Drives that are pre-formatted for OS X are usually no different than a standard external drive, other than having a higher price tag. Note on buying external hard drives: it’s almost always cheaper to buy a generic external hard drive and format it yourself to be Mac compatible.
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