Obviously, it's unlikely that I managed to procure two defective drives, so I'm thinking there may be something wrong with my machine.Īnother note - I've tried doing the format with the disk connected to both USB 2.0 ports on my machine, as well as connected through a USB hub. Choose a new name for the formatted drive and click Erase. If you're not sure, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is a safe bet. Select a file system to format the drive with. Click Erase in the bottom right-hand corner. Check Desktop Hard Drive is now formatted and mounted on desktop. Select the drive you want to format from the left-hand navigation menu. This is the second disk I've tried this with - I sent the first one back to Amazon thinking it was defective, and they sent me a replacement. Format: Choose APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) APFS is the newer version of Mac OS Extended. If I try to create a new partition with the same filesystem, I get the following error: Partition failed with the error: The underlying task reported failure on exit When I click "Erase", I get the following error after only a few seconds: Volume Erase Failed with the error: I click the single partition on the disk, choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" for the Volume Format and leave the name as-is.
Find the name of the drive in the left side of the Utilities window and select it. Under Volume, Format drop-down menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also give a name (like 2TBHFS) or whatever you want. Start the Disk Utility, located under Applications > Utilities. Under disk utility window, click the of your external hard drive and then click on Erase option at the top of the window. Change settings for Mac recognize an external hard disk in the Finder. Active Boot Disk is a complete and functioning computer operating system on CD/DVD/USB disk. Connect the external drive or the USB drive to the MAC. I connect it to my white Macbook (purchased late 2007, 2.14 GHz with 2 GB Ram), open Disk Utility. I installed macOS High Sierra on this MacBook and the external display worked fine. I have an Iomega Prestige desktop hard drive (1 TB) which I purchased from Amazon.
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