You will get the follow window advising you that this is a data destructive process and any data currently on the drive will be deletedġ0. But if your external hard drive is missing an unexplainably large amount.
Select Options and select GUID Partition Table This is valid only when the drive is formatted as MBR. Change Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)ħ.
Next to name you will see untitled 1 where you can name the drive. Select Partition Layout and select 1 partitionĥ. Select the Partition tab on the right hand side of the Disk Utility WindowĤ. Select the Seagate drive on the left that shows the capacityģ. For instructions on how to format a drive in Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) and above click here.Ģ. However, the steps are suitable for Mac OS X 10.6.8 to 10.10.5. The following is based on Mac OS X version 10.10.5. Reformatting the drive will erase all data on the drive, so you should copy any data you How to format a drive in Mac OS 10.6 to 10.10 This lead to hours of wasted time and issues with Protools and Sample Tank 3's assigned channels and instruments missing for which a long call with tech support did not yield desired results.įollow these steps instead (as I did later) taken directly off of Seagate's site: I made the mistake of following the install prompts that come with the Seagate hard drive.
