![]() ![]() Linux is basically the best way to give a middle finger to anything getting in your way with the drive, just boot a liveCD like ubuntu or something. Unfortunately now I don't even have a PC at hand, just bought a used PC for about 60 bucks just hopefully format these in Windows FOR Mac? I hope this works. Again my theory is that it was initially formatted in Windows based file system so even in Disk Utility you can't master override that. It gives an error regarding the GUID partition map or something. ![]() I put the SSD in the MacBook Pro and it didn't allow me to format it, mainly with Mac OSX Journaled. ![]() Just format it for the new filesystem and it should be fine, but be aware that you will lose any existing data on the drive. If it doesn't, there's nothing that says you can't just overwrite it with a new filesystem that your new OS understands - but beware you will lose your data. As long as the OS understands how to read that filesystem, it's fine. Drives are generally preformatted for FAT32 or NTFS due to their prevalence in the market, but all that is just the way the bytes are ordered.īasically, a filesystem is like an excel spreadsheet stored in the first sectors of the hard drive that links up files with their locations on the disk - the filesystem is exposed to the operating system, which then gives the controller the address it wants the file data for, and things go from there. You'd lose your data, but there's nothing stopping you from doing that.
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