How to Format/Partition External Harddrive Mac

Format and partition harddrive on Mac. Hit me up with questions or concerns and I'll do the best I can to help you out. Rate 5 stars, comment and subscribe, more videos to come.

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• Format
• Mac
• Partition
• External
• Harddrive
• Western Digital

[harborskoolmaniac]

Tried formatting internall hdd and says can't unmount disk, plz help...

[iMactheIphone]

@harborskoolmaniac Try restarting your computer, sometimes that helps. If not try repairing the disk and trying it again that should fix the problem. Hope this helped. :-)

[MOOEMAN]

Please answer me if you can: sooo I got a 1TB seagate free agent and I already have my mac running both osx and windows 7. I want to cut my external in half(maybe even three) so i can use time machine, and write files to my external from mac and windows. I use this for school so i was wondering what would be the best way to go about doing so. My main concern is there are already preset drives on it, but your video states that i have to reformat. Can you please help me out?!?! thanks in advance!

[iMactheIphone]

@MOOEMAN yeah you need to reformat so that you can partition the drive into 3 seperate parts like I have one for windows 7, one for Time Machine and one for Mac. Just follow the video step by step and you should be good. Good Luck.

[mineerjd]

Your video helped me out greatly. Now I want to access that 'Windows' partition from my laptop while the external hard drive is still plugged into the iMac. Is this possible? I've managed to get some networking between the two but not sure how to get into the hard drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

@Rockabella, I have the same HDD, it took mine 19 hours...I just waited. I think it's cos I've used it before and did have a lot of data on it.

[iMactheIphone]

@mineerjd It may be possible. I'm not quite sure though as I have never done that. I use my Mac partition on the mac and the windows when I'm using windows, so I'm not sure how you would do that. Sorry I'm not much help.

[Blumenon]

Hi,

Need clarification. So, if I get a wdmy for mac, I can use the same in a Windows laptop or pc by setting the partition right.?



[abrahamocampo1]

Thank you so much

[tylerspapi]

Please help! It says disk erase failed could not unmount disk! Whats wrong?

[alevange]

Thanks for the video. Very helpful

[katieannamccraw]

Brilliant - thanks so much!

[tommw95]

Thank you for the video was very helpful.