Select your external hard drive on the left hand side of Disk Utility: Find Disk Utility and double click on it: Click on Go -> Utilities or press the Shift + Command + U shortcut key: Connect your external hard drive to your Mac. Here is how to format your new external hard drive so that you can use it on your Mac: I didn’t know this until I got an external hard drive a few months ago, and my friends have been asking me the same questions lately, so I thought it might be a good idea to put it on my blog so that others who got the same situation can solve the problem without calling their friends / technicians □ Since most external hard drives are pre-formatted as NTFS Mac OS X can only read data from the hard drive but it can’t write anything to it (unless you install other 3rd party software. Well, not quite unless your external hard drive is pre-formatted as Mac OS Extended / FAT32. Is this a joke? All you have to do is to connect the USB cable to your Mac and that’s it…right?
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