Formatting an External HD

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specialist

macrumors member

Original poster

• Jun 29, 2006

• #1

I just bought an external HD and the manual says I should reformat it using Disk Utility to an OS X supported format. Is there a particular one I should use (case sensitive, journaled, etc.)? I'll be using it only has an HD for my Final Cut files.

 

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blodwyn

macrumors 65816

• Jun 29, 2006

• #2

specialist said:

I just bought an external HD and the manual says I should reformat it using Disk Utility to an OS X supported format. Is there a particular one I should use (case sensitive, journaled, etc.)? I'll be using it only has an HD for my Final Cut files.

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I've always used Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and had no troubles. I chose this as my internal disk is formatted this way, so I figured it would be the best general choice.

 

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JackSYi

macrumors 6502a

• Jun 29, 2006

• #3

blodwyn said:

I've always used Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and had no troubles. I chose this as my internal disk is formatted this way, so I figured it would be the best general choice.

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I use that format for my LaCie 160GB and no problems.

 

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shawsinio

macrumors regular

• Jul 2, 2006

• #4

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

pretty useful bits on there

 

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caffca

macrumors newbie

• Jul 3, 2006

• #5

formatting options in OSX Disk Utility

Anyone else have this problem:
When I select a partition to format on my external harddrive I don't get the MS-DOS option (in OSX) that I keep reading about.... meaning I can't format a partition to FAT32... any ideas....

Thanks

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