The Disk Utility app Version 17.0 (1635) was installed as part of MacOs 10.13.2 - High Sierra.
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When you’ve picked how many wipes you’d like to run, click “OK,” then click “Erase” back at the initial prompt. New MBP with Snow leopard.is there a way to change the Disk Format type from MAC OS EXTENDED to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED) without erasing or formatting the DATA on the EXTERNAL HD Have 6TB LACIE external Drive and need to change to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED) and do not want to loose the data. No Ability to Format APFS with Disk Utility All contemporary Support Articles in the 'Disk Utility' thread states that I can format a disk (including an external HDD) by using Disk Utility and create APFS as the Format. Seven passes is going to take a long time, and even three passes will take at least an hour, so only use these options if you’re really, really paranoid. The Pentagon is even more paranoid: they use seven passes. But three passes is what the US Department of Energy uses to securely delete their files. If your external hard drive is unallocated, you can right-click the unallocated space, choose Create Partition.
The partition is now called 'disk1s2' and its spelled with gray text. All of the buttons and text fields are grayed out, I cant format the disk. Here you can also change cluster size for better performance. The following morning (today) I booted to the external HDD of my iMac, opened Disk Utility and noticed that now the internal is on the list again. In the pop-up window, choose exFAT under File System. RELATED: You Only Need to Wipe a Disk Once to Securely Erase ItĪs we’ve discussed before, you probably only need one pass, at least with modern hard drives. Right-click the external hard drive’s partition, Select Format Partition. The first notch to the right of “Fastest” writes over the entire drive with random data once the third notch, three times. That’s not what we want, so let’s move the slider.
The first option, “Fastest,” will delete the partition but leave all files untouched. You’ll see a sliding scale with four options: Click the “Security Options” button on the bottom. Make sure you click the drive you want to securely delete: you do not want to erase some other hard drive by mistake! When you’re ready, click the “Erase” button. Connect the drive you want to securely delete, then click it in the sidebar.
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