Q: Cannot properly format new internal hard drive
Hi,
I own a 2012 Macbook Pro and I recently had the 500GB hard drive fail on me. After confirming this with the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, I decided to put in a new 750GB hard drive myself. I confirmed with the Apple Store employee that I had purchased the correct hard drive from Western Digital and installed it myself. Everything went fine with the installation, and I was able to boot up the computer and get to the disk utility just fine. Once I got to the disk utility, I attempted to erase the disk and use the new format of Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
From here, the disk utility seems to work fine, but then once it got to the 'Partitioning. Estimated time: x' the time kept on adding up. I left it overnight and now the time is at 9 hours! This is obviously not working correctly. Are there any suggestions to this problem?
MacBook Pro, Windows 7
Posted on Mar 18, 2015 6:54 AM