I need Help, re-formatting External drive for mac

Bruce Snow · From: Neustadt, Ontario, Canada

I've recently moved from windows pc to imac for pro tools, everything is working fine except my external drives they need to be reformatted to work on the mac & i'm having trouble doing so . Any help would be appreciated. bruce

one drive is formatted fat32 & the other is ntsf

Cal Sharp · From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN

Hi Bruce,

This is in OSX. Go to Applications/Utilities and double click on Disk Utility. Select your drive in the left hand column and then click on "erase" and format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and give it a name. All data on the drive will be erased, of course.

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Bruce Snow · From: Neustadt, Ontario, Canada

Cal, I really appreciate your help so quickly.seems easy enough.Thanks
Bruce

Bruce Snow · From: Neustadt, Ontario, Canada

Thanks Cal, it worked great. I'm on my way,it automatically switched from transfer to record in workspace in pro tools as well.Bruce

Cal Sharp · From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN

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