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Click Erase, confirm the action if prompted, and wait until. Select the Format option Mac Extended (Journaled) or APFS. Select the disk or volume in the sidebar, then click the Erase button. Choose your Macs system drive, usually named Macintosh HD, then click Erase.You can format a disk or volume using one of the following file system formats. Now, find the FAT32 partition and format it to OS X Extended (Journaled), which is the desired HFS+. Then, select the external hard drive and click ' Partition ' tab on the top. Start the Disk Utility, which is located under Applications > Utilities. Step 2: Format the FAT32 Partition to HFS+ Partition on Mac. Connect the external drive or the USB drive to the Mac. "File system formats available in Disk Utility Part 2: Format External Hard Drive for Mac with Disk Utility. This is completely contrary to the very first statement in the Disk Utility Help article: Clicking Erase gives a pop-up window.where the "Format :" drop down menu does NOT contain APFS.
#What to format external drive for mac 2019 windows
Only the "Erase" button in the top menu is active (not grey). Most external HDD comes in NTFS format, which means, it work fine on Windows but MAC, the drive will become read-only. My new Seagate 2TB-USB 3.0 (as-received) is formatted NTFS.
#What to format external drive for mac 2019 pro
Disk Utility correctly shows that my MacBook Pro internal (boot) SSD is formatted APFS. Compatibility with old OS versions is only a limitation if you want to attach an external APFS drive directly to a Mac running an OS older than Sierra. The Disk Utility app was installed as part of MacOs 10.13.2 - High Sierra. No Ability to Format APFS with Disk Utility!Īll contemporary Support Articles in the "Disk Utility" thread states that I can format a disk (including an external HDD) by using Disk Utility and create APFS as the Format.