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www.FreeComputerConsultant.com Sometimes when you plug a new USB external hard drive into your PC it will not show up in Windows Explorer. This might be because the drive is new and needs to be initialized, a partition created and formatted
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This is a quick tutorial on how to format your External Hard Drive before using it for the Mac. The hard drive used in this video is an Iomega Prestige 1TB External Hard Drive. This procedure works on most external hard drives. Hope you find this tutorial a bit useful and good luck on using your hard drive with your Mac! =D
Tutorial showing how to create a partition on your external hard drive, for it to be compatible with your MacOS and Windows – this also works for your PS3. Follow me on Twitter : twitter.com
Question: How can you format an external hard drive when every computer says “windows cannot format the drive?”?
I have a western digital 1tb external hard drive. After lending it to a friend I had to format it before I could access it on my computer. I tried but it said the above error message. I’ve tried on three computers since then all with the same message; i’m sure everything is gone by now but i just want to be able to access it. What can I do?
Answer:
Answer by Snooky
most likely youd have to use a third party software. if that doesnt work though, then that drive just isnt possible to format. sorry =(
As promised, this is how to format your external hard drive on a Mac. Enjoy! Website: www.jamiebrittain.com