Hi, When in the finder, press cmd-shift-u to open the Utilities folder, then you’ll find the Disk Utility in there.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jan 29, 2015, at 15:34, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: > > where’s the disk utility? at this time Idon’t have a windows computer but > that doesn’t mean I never will and if there’s something like fat available, I > should probably go for that. >> On Jan 29, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> There should also be a choice in Disk Utility if you wish the drive to be >> Windows/Mac writeable, to format your drive in the XFAT format which allows >> for much bigger file size than FAT32 I think that the file size is something >> like 16 TB although I could be remembering incorrectly. >> >> Later... >> MSDOS. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Jan 29, 2015, at 15:13, David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It depends on whether you want the drive to be accessible to Windows PCs as >>> well. >>> If you are not bothered about Windows PCs then you can use the default Mac >>> OS Extended (Journaled). >>> >>> If you want to have both Windows and MacOs to have full read and write >>> access you need to format it as Ms\Dos which has I think a 4GB limit on >>> individual file size. >>> >>> An alternative is to get the NTFS add on from Paragon which extend the >>> ability of Mac OS to write as well as read NTFS partitions. >>> >>> David Griffith >>> >>>> On 29 Jan 2015, at 21:53, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> How do I reformat a new ntfs external hard drive so I can use it on m;y >>>> Mac? >>>> >>>> Tha;nks. >>>> Lorie >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
