How do i format external HDD for on Mac Lion?
 

I am trying to connect and format drive but i can not find option where i can select drive and format it?

Please help me out if you know how. Please post screen shot

Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

Fire that up.

Your disk will appear in the left hand side.

Select it.

Then hit FORMAT and chose Mac OS Extended (journaled)

POW

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Or you could have done this

http://www.google.co.uk/search?clien...XiA8mj8QPfvb0O

;)

... but don't select the wrong drive!

/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app

That should do it. :D

Thanks i will try that

Wish I'd thought of that.

Found it. Thanks a lot

You need to put a little bit of forethought into how you will be using this drive.

Being an external (read: portable) drive, if you format it as NTFS, you can read its contents from both
Mac OR Windows computers ... Meaning you can take the drive and plug it into any windows or Mac machine, and read the contents off of it ...

If you format it as Mac OS Extended, the drive is committed to being read by a Mac computer only ...

** Do not format it as FAT32 ... as Mac will not write any files larger than 4GB to it ..

You can read HFS+ on Windows, you just need a little app

http://geekyninja.com/archives/how-t...es-on-windows/

No it isn't, see above, and you get the advantages of a HFS_ disk.

Nor would a PC.

Sigh

in snow leopard i don't think it can write to ntfs... i use http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ to write to ntfs formatted drives

Quite possibly the best first post in history? :1orglaugh:thumbsup

very helpful. thanks all

try to search on google how to do it :)

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