View Full Version : Formatting the new Hard Drive...


Blake Cavett
April 3rd, 2009, 02:04 PM
I am as ignorant as they come when it comes to anything electrical, mechanical, etc.

It is a sad existence.

I upgraded recently to an Intel Mac and successfully pulled my media drive out of my old Mac and got it into my new one. How? I 'youtubed' it and found a 46 second tutorial. Hey, it beats paying my nearest Apple store a hundred bucks to do it!

Anyways... I'm going to run out of room soon on this hard drive and will need another. I can install a hard drive... but formatting? What up?! Someone tell me it's simple and there's nothing to it (and then laugh at me later).

Heath McKnight
April 3rd, 2009, 02:11 PM
Is it the start-up drive or an external drive? It's not clear.

Heath

Robert Lane
April 3rd, 2009, 02:34 PM
Are you replacing the single internal drive on a laptop or one of the (4) internals in a Mac Pro?

Heath McKnight
April 3rd, 2009, 02:45 PM
I recommend getting a drive enclosure from Find the latest Performance Upgrades, Firewire and USB Hard Drives, SATA, Memory, Laptop Battery, and more at OWC (http://www.macsales.com) and putting the old drive in it. That's what I did recently when I swapped out my old drive for a bigger one in my MacBook.

heath

Blake Cavett
April 3rd, 2009, 03:15 PM
It will another internal drive... 500GB... and slide it into the 3rd bay. It will be just for media for editing.

Heath McKnight
April 3rd, 2009, 03:38 PM
Then format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

heath