Here’s that boring paragraph I have to write before I tell you how to do something, feel free to skip to IMPORTANT STUFF below to just see how to do it. I Hate tech people. I used to have constant battles with the Help Desk at Emerson College because they just went out of their way to be a pain in the ass to everyone. They’d sneer at you over their bank of DELL computers— I’m sure that eventually, as happens to all Dell Computers, they burst into flames and consumed the whole group. I hate Tech because they can’t speak in normal language— they’ll write something like “Oh, you can’t get your computer to open? Do a soft-shell USB contrab reboot from a dedicated line and you should be all set!” Oh-kay. Thanks.
All right so External Hard Drives are great— I love ‘em. I have a bunch. I recommend Seagate for stability. The one pictured above is my latest— an 8TB monster that will be the place all of my archived work will reside. The trouble is they come formatted for Windows, and when you go to the support website there’s the Contrab reboot nonsense. There are also people who send them back and get a more expensive pre-Mac formatted version but there’s no reason to because it’s extremely easy— you’ll be up and running in less time than It took to read these two paragraphs.
IMPORTANT STUFF
1- Plug the new drive in to your computer’s USB port and plug in the power supply. You’ll see it pop up on the desktop.
2- Go to DISK UTILITY— you can find that by clicking on that little hourglass at the top right of your Mac and then typing in DISK UTLITY, the app will pop up.
3- Over on the left hand side you’ll see the new Hard Drive— click on it and then choose ERASE. NOTE: if you get the pop up asking about TIME MACHINE just click decide later.
4- When you click ERASE you’ll get a FORMAT option— Choose Mac OS Extended Case Sensitive and hit Erase Again— it’ll take a few minutes but after it’s run it’s course you’ll now have a Mac Formatted External Hard Drive that you can just drag and drop files into.
Easy peasy.
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