![]() ![]() Step 3: Select the drive in Disk Utility. To format an external storage device, connect it to one of the ports on your Mac. You will see a faster backup with the new SSD. This is all you need to format the SSD for Time Machine. Editor’s Note: If you are planning to use this for Windows XP, please be aware that that the GUID Partition scheme can’t recognize by Windows XP 32-bit machines and Maz OS X ver 10.4 or older. The videos below demonstrate the complete process of formatting an external hard drive for full Mac OS X compatibility, this uses the new Disk Utility in modern versions of Mac OS X: Similarly, you can perform the same type of process in Mac OS X for making a USB flash drive compatible with Mac OS using the Disk Utility in Mac OS X, as you can. With the drive selected in Disk Utility, click. Click Erase and OS X will format the drive. These will format the drive in OS X's HFS+ filetype so it will be compatible with Time Machine.
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