hey YouTube it's Ryan here and I'm gonna
show you how to make your hard drive
work for both Mac and Windows computers
now I've got this hard drive that I
bought from Amazon and it came Windows
I came set up for Windows and it was
formatted for the windows filesystem
which was kind of a hassle because I use
a Mac but don't worry you can fix it
quite easily by going into your finder
so I'm going to click on my desktop to
make sure that the finder tab up at the
top here is available and I'm gonna
scroll from file down to new Finder
window you can also hit command and to
get your new Finder window and I'm gonna
go to applications all the way down to
utilities once in utilities I'm going to
open up my Disk Utility you can also get
here by just clicking your spotlight
Disk Utility there it is probably should
have started with that ok now that I'm
in Disk Utility you can find your hard
drive mine's called
X Drive and I'm going to erase it make
sure all of the contents are already
stored somewhere else copied elsewhere
and safe because you are erasing this
hard drive and reformatting so I am
choosing ms-dos because that is
compatible with both Mac and Windows and
then I'm going to hit a race
once everything is somewhere else and
backed up so I'm gonna do that and here
it goes and it's done it you might get
an error I've tried this before and I've
gotten errors if that's the case unmount
your drive plug it back in try again and
you should be able to get this success
through a little bit of playing with
Disk Utility the other option you can
use is first aid you can run first aid
on the disk sometimes that's necessary
but I found that I was able to be
successful through erasing
choosing ms-dos for the cross
compatibility and if it shows you an
error sometimes it did a race but you
have to unmount your drive mounts it
again and then run the process again in
order for it to work and hopefully that
was helpful for you if it was and your
computer is now accepting your hard
drive and everything's good please hit
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