Do not message us asking us to make an exception. We cannot assist with password or account issues. Please make your title and contents descriptive. Posts with 'Help' or non-descriptive titles. Posts with an empty body, only a link in the body, title copied into the body, and/or lack of information in the body Submissions consisting of the following are considered incomplete and will be removed: Please read our new rules page for more in-depth rules. Please do not submit the same issue more than once within 24 hours. Do everything you can to reduce the effort of the wonderful folks offering to help you.Īfter solving your problem, please mark it as solved by clicking 'flair' and confirming the 'solved' tag. State everything you have tried and all the guides/tutorials/sites you have followed as well as why they were unsuccessful. Try to research your issue before posting, don't be vague. The subreddit is only for support with tech issues. Please include your system specs, such as Windows/Linux/Mac version/build, model numbers, troubleshooting steps, symptoms, etc. Live Chat ~Enter Discord~ Submission Guidelines Now while on the PC you may wish to consider reformatting that partition using ExFAT (if supported on your PC.) This format is more compatible with both OS X and NTSF supporting long file names and other FAT filesystem irregularities.Check out our Knowledge Base, all guides are compiled by our Trusted Techs. When you connect the drive to your PC it should have no problem reading the partition set up for a PC. The one you wish to use on a PC you should format MSDOS (FAT). Re-partition the drive to create the three partitions.

The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.ħ. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.Ħ. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.ĥ. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.Ĥ. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.ģ. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.

Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.Ģ.

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