mac book pro 2012 format portable

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mac book pro 2012 format portable

Running Catalina. I want to buy and format a Seagate One Touch 2TB External Hard Drive Slim Portable HDD USB 3.0 / USB 2.0. Will a MBPro 2012 format this drive with no problem?

I ask because earlier this year I tried formatting an empty partition from the boot partition on a MBPro 2012 and it rendered the empty partition unreadable. I don’t understand how that could happen, so I don’t know what to expect.

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Posted on May 16, 2024 6:44 PM

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May 17, 2024 11:22 AM in response to Greg Reyna

Greg Reyna wrote:

Running Catalina. I want to buy and format a Seagate One Touch 2TB External Hard Drive Slim Portable HDD USB 3.0 / USB 2.0. Will a MBPro 2012 format this drive with no problem?

I would anticipate no issue

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/19.0/mac/10.15

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May 17, 2024 5:44 PM in response to leroydouglas

Thanks

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