SlayerS_BoxeR Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I pulled out a HDD from my old windows laptop, put it in external HDD and connected to a mac to see if I could reformat the HDD How come I'm seeing multiple external hdd names? Also when I try to "erase", it doesn't give me an option to erase with NTFS Should I use a windows VM instead? I want to reformat it so I could give it to a next person to either use this as a windows HDD or for external HDD The model is hitachi 7k500-500. After the reformat, can the windows HDD be an external hdd or will it still be under Windows HDD? Should I format all the 4 disks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted November 10, 2018 Moderator Share Posted November 10, 2018 Looks like it had been partitioned by HP. If you have nothing to lose, just wipe the whole thing. I'm not that well versed with OSX, but there should be an option to wipe the whole thing. All partitions. Mac user, please advise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, slayers_boxers said: I pulled out a HDD from my old windows laptop, put it in external HDD and connected to a mac to see if I could reformat the HDD How come I'm seeing multiple external hdd names? Also when I try to "erase", it doesn't give me an option to erase with NTFS Should I use a windows VM instead? I want to reformat it so I could give it to a next person to either use this as a windows HDD or for external HDD The model is hitachi 7k500-500. After the reformat, can the windows HDD be an external hdd or will it still be under Windows HDD? Should I format all the 4 disks? What external names are you seeing? macOS isn’t going to let you format with an unsupported file system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlayerS_BoxeR Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 So I installed a VM for Windows and compared against Mac It's the same. How can it show as 4 disks? if it's only a single HDD. Can this all be combined? I'm trying to sell the HDD in the end and I just didn't want the person who will buy this feel like a scam or something Any troubleshooting or anything I need to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted November 17, 2018 Subscriber² Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) It's partitioned.. they are all on disk2 (aka your external). Ones the Windows Recovery partition, One is an HP Tools partition, ones the EFI partition (aka the boot partition) and one is the standard windows C:\ partition... Just delete them all and create a new partition. Also macOS does not support formatting as NTFS, it can use them but you cannot format as NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlayerS_BoxeR Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 13 hours ago, Matthew S. said: It's partitioned.. they are all on disk2 (aka your external). Ones the Windows Recovery partition, One is an HP Tools partition, ones the EFI partition (aka the boot partition) and one is the standard windows C:\ partition... Just delete them all and create a new partition. Also macOS does not support formatting as NTFS, it can use them but you cannot format as NTFS. Thanks a mil!!!!!!!!! Cleared them all and created a new one! I reformatted as exFAT instead of NTFS. It should give more options to users. Am I right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted November 17, 2018 MVC Share Posted November 17, 2018 23 minutes ago, slayers_boxers said: Thanks a mil!!!!!!!!! Cleared them all and created a new one! I reformatted as exFAT instead of NTFS. It should give more options to users. Am I right? Yes. Both Windows and macOS can read and write to exFAT partitions without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlayerS_BoxeR Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 Thanks all. You can close the topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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