However, if you plan to boot from the drive, you should pick MBR for Windows and Linux and GUID for OS X. If you’re only using the drive for storage, then it doesn’t really matter which one you pick. NOTE: If your external hard drive is not formatted for the Mac operating system, you may first need to Initialize it and then Erase it. Navigate to that external hard drive and partition it according to your needs. Under the External heading on the left hand side, you should have one hard drive instead of 3 (I have already partitioned mine). Yours will look a little bit different than mine.
On the left hand side, navigate to the tab that says EXTERNAL. To partition the drive, go to Spotlight at the top of your MacBook Screen (Notification Bar) and type in Disk Utility. If you have an even larger drive, you can create even more partitions for other operating systems like Linux, etc. 33%: Windows (Extra Storage and Backup can go on same partition) – 500GBĪs you can see, each partition can have its own file format.
