Apple doesn’t make it easy to manage disks and external drives on your Mac, and if you’re trying to connect or format an external hard drive to erase all data, your Mac has certain requirements for that. For example, Apple only detects drives formatted with a macOS-compatible format.
Similarly, formatting an external hard drive is also a complicated process, and if you are also facing a problem about how to format an external hard drive on Mac, then follow this step-by-step guide:
Before you begin to format an external drive on your Mac, make sure you have the following:
Mac computer with a USB port
An external drive or flash drive that you want to format. It can be an external hard drive, SSD, flash drive or flash drive.
Steps you need to follow:
1. Connect your external drive to your Mac using a USB cable.
2. Open Spotlight search by pressing Cmd + Spacebar.
3. In the Spotlight search, type Disk Utility
4. Open Disk Utility and find your external drive
5. Click on it and hit the “Scan” button at the top of the screen
6. Choose Format Drive and enter a name for the drive.
7. Click the Erase button to start formatting the drive.
Wait for the process to complete, this may take a few minutes depending on the size of the drive and the amount of data it contains.
