How to Format Hard Drive for Mac Compatibly in OS X Disk Utility

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This will demonstrate how to format a hard disk to be completely Mac OS X compatible, the entire process is handled through Disk Utility as demonstrated with an external hard drive attached to a Mac running OS X El Capitan.

This gives the hard drive a Mac compatible HFS partition, it works with internal and external hard drives, USB drives, flash drives, USB keys, and any other storage type.

http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/04/format-an-external-hard-drive-or-usb-flash-drive-for-mac-os-x/

Some users may also wish to get a Mac AND Windows compatible drive instead, here's how you can format for dual compatibility instead:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/

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