For instructions on how to format your hard drive on a Mac, please reference the following links: How to format a drive in Mac OS 10.6 to 10.10 How to format your drive in MacOS 10.11 and above Formatting your drive in Windows To open the Disk Management press and hold the Windows key + ( R ) Type compmgmt.msc. Overall, if you are considering using Windows 10 on a Mac or picking up a Mac to run Windows 10, you will want to consider seriously using Trackpad++.
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What’s the disk format, FAT32 or non-Microsoft format? Can you access this HDD on another computers? If there is no important data on this HD need to backup, you can try to reformat it in Disk Management as a test. 1. Connect the HDD 2. Start - diskmgmt.msc, it will open Disk Management, can you find the external HDD listed as Disk x?
3. If it shows partition space and status as “Healthy”, you can right click the partition and try to assign a drive letter. If we cannot assign drive letter for it, pls right click the partition and select “Format”.
All data will be clean but you should be able to assign drive letter. Can you access the HDD now?
What’s the disk format, FAT32 or non-Microsoft format? Can you access this HDD on another computers?
If there is no important data on this HD need to backup, you can try to reformat it in Disk Management as a test. 1. Connect the HDD 2. Start - diskmgmt.msc, it will open Disk Management, can you find the external HDD listed as Disk x?
3. If it shows partition space and status as “Healthy”, you can right click the partition and try to assign a drive letter. If we cannot assign drive letter for it, pls right click the partition and select “Format”. All data will be clean but you should be able to assign drive letter. Can you access the HDD now?
I have the same issue, but when I right click on the partion, the option to assign a drive letter is grey'd out. I do not see a disk format either, it is blank in that section (FileSystem). What can I do?
I have Windows XP Hey I had the exact same problem. I was using my external hard drive on a MacBook and wanted to format it so that it would work on XP but when I opened Disk Management all the options were greyed out. Here's how I solved the problem: 1. Connect your external hard drive to your mac 2. Open Disk Utility (command+F and type 'disk utility') 3. Click the drive you want to format in the left hand pannel 4.
Click the 'partition' tab 5. Select under Volume Scheme '1 partition' 6. Under Volume Information, under format select 'MS- DOS (FAT)' 7.
Click 'Apply' The disk should now be formatted in FAT32 which is compatible with Windows XP. After completing those steps I connect the hard drive to my PC and I was able to read and write in the volume. Hope this helps! Ok well now that ive backedup all my files. Can i delete them off my computer?
Or do i have to leave them on their? Cuz i bought the external hard drive so i can clear my bigger files off my computer and just use them through my external hardrive. When its hooked up to my computer. So i have the files when i need them. EX: iTunes is a really big file and i kinda wanted to put that on my external hard drive so that i can take it off my computer along with all my music and just use it on my harddrive when i need to sync my iPod and whatnot.