Hello,
I want to format a recently purchased 1tb Elements for use with my Macbook Pro running 10.6.8 which I thing is Snow Leopard. Any help as to how to do that would be appreciated.
Hi @MickyFig
The WD Elements drive you purchased should work fine for macOS once it’s reformatted. Please keep in mind that reformatting a drive will erase all data on the drive so please back up any data prior to following the instructions:
Hi, And thanks. But there isn’t anything for macOS 10.6.8, so which set of instructions do I use…if any?
We don’t support Snow Leopard anymore (it’s a really old OS), but if I recall it was very similar to the 10.7 instructions.
In general, to format a hard drive on macOS (10.6 older disk utility), you should:
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Connect hard drive to Mac
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Launch Disk Utility from Application << Utilities folder
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In Disk Utility, select your external 1 TB drive from the left panel
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Go to Erase tab
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Give a Format, Name and Size of the drive.
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Click Apply to save the settings
This should format your 1 TB external hard drive to your chosen Mac OS Journaled system.