Compared with operating systems Windows, where formatting a hard disk drive is done with a single right-click on the partition external hard drive or USB USB stickacquis (flash drive) and click “FormatOn operating systems OS X, we need to use an OS X utility.
application Disk Utility helps us manage everything that means storage device on a Mac. Inclusive hard diskCPC Macacquis.
How To Format an External Hard Disk / USB Stick on OS X
Formatting is done following a few simple steps:
1. Connect hard diskthe external via USB to Mac.
2. open application Disk Utility
3. Select the HDD we want to format or partition. (very ATTENTION not to select another hard disk by mistake)
4. Go to the "Erase" tab> select in which format we want to convert the volume of the hdd
5. Click> “Erase…”.
