HT201909: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture

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Q: EXT HD: NTFS to MAC OS EXTENDED

When i first came over from the dark side I thought I needed to keep a backdoor open to WINDOWS for some reason. My external backup Hard Drives required NTFS. But now that the paragon subscription is up for renewal I see that I cannot write to these HD. SO I don't really need NTFS at all since I have never really looked back to MICROSOFT - right?

 

WHY  BOTHER WITH NTFS, I AM ASKING.

 

Here will be my work flow: BAck up material on the target HD. ERASE AND FORMAT or just reformat to MAC OS EXTENDED...

 

Copy all that data back to this external HD..

 

Anything I have missed?

 

 

thanks in advanced.

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 2.7hz i7; 16gb Ram; VB;win-7-64

Posted on Nov 2, 2015 4:39 AM

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  • by keg55,

    keg55 keg55 Nov 2, 2015 6:17 AM in response to vdotmatrix
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    Nov 2, 2015 6:17 AM in response to vdotmatrix

    You will want to format your external back up drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the GUID partition table so it's bootable. If you already have everything over on your Mac; then use Time Machine to back up your Mac. This will back up everything. Sort of like an image back up in Windows. If you're doing your TM back up locally, then that external drive is bootable and will boot into the OS X Utilities menu just like the Recovery HD does allowing you to use Disk Utility to manage drives, Restore from a back up, etc.