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You can also take a look at my frequently asked questions section of the how to format WD Passport For Mac article.

Why Does Creating Partitions and Formatting reduce my hard drive space 2.

I try to partition and I get an error from Disk Utility.

How do I repartition my WD My Passport drive Last words.

One has for Mac as part of the description and is preformatted to HFS (equivalent to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) File System.

Having a partition wont prevent the most destructive viruses from trashing the drive, though it will restrict some.

Or to keep things simple twice the size of the hard drive you are backing up.

Hard drives fail over time and the best practice is to have at least two copies on separate drives if not three copies of your data.

Or if you have one of the latest Macs running Mac OS High Sierra, you can also format the partition to AFS (the new Apple File System).

I use images and I have a link to a video that you can watch to help you feel confident to do this yourself.

Youll probably see the application come up as soon as you type: d i s k.

Give your first partition a name to help you remember what you set this partition up to do.

Select that using the up and down arrows to the right hand side of the format option.

Type in the number and use the up and down arrows so say whether it is in TB, GB, etc.

In the example screen, this is a partition used for copying and pasting photos to.

That way files will be visible to, readable and writable by both operating systems.

This is because the act of partitioning uses up file system space.

Mac OS is calculating on the fly the partition sizes and the space its needs to create the partitions.

Click on partition and away Disk Utility will go, creating the partitions.

Different colors will illustrate the partitions you have set up.

Each partition looking like a separate disk that you can use.

I have set the video to the point where Acquevara shows the hard drive being partitioned.

Because formatting and writing file systems take up space and you wont have the space you hoped for.

Failing that enter disk utility and run first aid on your drive to see if Mac OS can recover the corrupted drive.

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