Format 1 tb Elements

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:

  1. Connect hard drive to Mac

  2. Launch Disk Utility from Application << Utilities folder

  3. In Disk Utility, select your external 1 TB drive from the left panel

  4. Go to Erase tab

  5. Give a Format, Name and Size of the drive.

  6. Click Apply to save the settings

This should format your 1 TB external hard drive to your chosen Mac OS Journaled system.

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