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I have an external drive with two partitions, from a year or two back. Today I attempted to reformat the entire drive, but I could not. On disk utility there are the two partitions, but no drive, just the partitions. I can erase the contents, but I cannot remove the partitions. Can anyone advise me of the problem, and tell me how to reformat the drive? 🙂
MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13)
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Reformatting external drive - problem ?
