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Hi,
I'm re-formatting an external drive on a macbook M1 (ventura) & I notice that the option to format MacOS (journaled, extended or encrypted) isn't available. It only allows that with AFPS, which I don't want to use as I have another older mac that I also want to use the drive with.
Any ideas or other ways that don't use third party software to encrypt the drive so it needs a password to access?
Thanks.
The links below from Apple should provide insights and methods to format an External Drive
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
The links below from Apple should provide insights and methods to format an External Drive
Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Encrypt and protect a storage device with a password in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
Use the older Mac to format the drive. Ventura cannot create a CoreStorage device which is required for encrypting an HFS+ file system.
It can still use the drive, it just cannot create it.
formatting external drive on M1 mac doesn't have MacOS with encryption
