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Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app?
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Ant
Dec 1, 2021, 2:57:07 AM12/1/21
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Hello.
Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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Ant
Dec 2, 2021, 5:18:46 AM12/2/21
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In comp.sys.mac.apps Ant <a...@zimage.comant> wrote:
> Hello.
> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
> HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
> Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
OK, I figured it out. I have to format the disk container to do it.
> Hello.
> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
> HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
> Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
That was confusing.
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