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• HOW DO FORMAT A NEW INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC PRO 2010? INSTALL

Its faster to just erase/invalidate the partition, create a new partition, and MAYBE verify sectors instead of doing a real format and then verifying. I prefer the 35 pass called Gutmann method. The MacBook Pro line received a second update on June 5, 2007, with new Nvidia. I have Googled this issue but found no answers. Hard drive capacity was increased, although video card options stayed the same. Under the window of Format, File System, the only option is: NTSF (Default). The only way to truly erase a disk is to have it do a 0 write pass. I have numerous external hard drives that were formatted in exFAT under WIndows XP Pro but under my new system, a fully updated Windows 7 professional, I cannot format external drives to exFAT.

HOW DO FORMAT A NEW INTERNAL HARD DRIVE FOR MAC PRO 2010? INSTALL

This means your Macbook is unable to locate its system software, and cannot start up without your attempting to recover or perform a clean install of OS X. I would hope that this utility, DiskPart, issuing its "clean" command actually does more than clear the data partition info. Format your Macbook Pro using any of the methods in this article if a flashing question mark displays on-screen after starting up your Mac. It's possible to recover the data with a little work, primarily on the "folders." Then I booted the new drive via USB to confirm that it was properly cloned. I first cloned the drive by attaching the new one via a USB dongle and running Carbon Copy Cloner. Format just basically wipes the file data/directory/folder content, not the data elsewhere on the drive. I replaced a 5 year old 320GB hard drive with a new 1TB hard drive.

While I cannot guarantee this article does exactly what it claims it does (I haven't tried it, let alone heard about this way before) I can speak for the way format works now days.ĭrives come pretty much preformatted now days as to its sectors and such.

21240634 said:Am I missing something? Couldn't you just bring up a command prompt and type "format e:" - or some other drive letter?