How to reformat an external hard drive in Ventura

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How to reformat an external hard drive in Ventura 13.7.8

Posted on Aug 23, 2026 4:28 PM

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To add to the guidance from our friend, @Niel, this is Apple's guidance documentation for the task:

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Choose Utilities from the Finder's Go menu, open the Disk Utility, select it in the sidebar, and use the Erase function.

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