- #MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME HOW TO#
- #MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME FOR MAC#
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#MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME MAC OS#
#MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME HOW TO#
Instructions for how to format your external drive so that it will be fully usable in MacOS. Newer Seagate and LaCie branded external drives come preformatted exFAT, some older drives are formatted for PCs, some for Macs, and some of them have special utilities allowing them to work between both without formatting. This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on Windows and Mac.
#MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME FOR MAC#
Format External Drive For Mac And Pc Exfat.Format External Drive For Mac And Windows.
#MAC DISK UTILITY FORMAT SCHEME WINDOWS 10#
But the "Scheme" popup menu does not appear in the panel. If I select the secondary item in that list (Lexar), I can successfully do a format operation. No matter what Scheme I choose, I get an error when trying to format the item higher in the hierarchy in the sidebar to the left (Lexar USB Flash…), as shown in the screen shot above.
Mysterious error when formatting higher item The third one ( Apple Partition Map) is for booting old Macs (68K and PowerPC rather than Intel chips).
Why is this offered as a scheme for "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"? That really threw me, and prompted this Question. The second one ( Master Boot Record) is old, from the 80's DOS 2, for old PCs. Booting is not an issue for my use of this flash drive. I know the first one ( GUID Partition Map) is for booting modern Macs. When using Disk Utility 16.3 with macOS Sierra to format a "thumbdrive" USB 3 Lexar flash drive (64 gigs), when I choose a Format of ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’, I get a list of three Scheme items: