As best partition manager for Windows, MiniTool Partition Wizard aims to maximize disk performance. It helps create/resize/format partition flexibly, convert disk between MBR and GPT disks, convert partition between NTFS and FAT32, and convert dynamic disk to basic without data loss in a few clicks.
MiniTool partition manager software offers two perfect solutions for data recovery. Partition Recovery Wizard can find and recover the lost partitions while Data Recovery feature can recognize and recover lost/deleted files from damaged, formatted, inaccessible FAT/NTFS/exFAT drives and Desktop/Recycle Bin/specified folders.
How To Mini Tool Partition To Format Drive For Mac
What is disk formatting? When do you need to format a hard drive? How to format a hard drive with ease? How to format a hard drive for Mac? What can you do when mistakenly formatting a hard drive? This post shows you the answers.
Hard drives, which are the primary storage devices on our computer, need to be formatted before we can use them. Here, before formatting hard drive, you might be wondering: what is drive formatting? And, when do we need to format a drive? How to format a hard drive?
Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.
As we know, there are many reasons why we need to format a hard drive. For instance, when installing a new hard drive on the computer, we need to format it with a file system, such as NTFS, before Windows can store files on it. Besides, if we are going to give the drive to someone else or throw it away, we need to format it to erase all the information on it.
In general, there is no real difference between reformatting a drive and formatting a drive. Both ways will delete all data on the hard drive. When we reformat a hard drive, we are essentially formatting a drive that has previously been formatted.
After seeing the simple introduction, you might know how to format a hard drive to erase data. However, formatting will not delete all data permanently and deleted files still exist on a drive and can be recovered by professional data recovery software. Knowing this, some users want to know whether they can delete some important files like business data and personal information permanently.
The two most common ways to erase a hard drive are formatting or wiping the drive. However, formatting is not a 100 percent secure way to completely remove all data from computer since formatting does not erase the data on the disk, only the address tables.
As we know, since formatting just eases the address tables instead of the data, we can recover lost data if we mistakenly format a drive. MiniTool Partition Wizard can also help you to find the lost data back if you have mistakenly formatted the hard drive with the Data Recovery feature.
You can use a thumb drive on both Windows and Mac. But you need to format it to a suitable format. What is the best format for a thumb drive on Windows and Mac? How to format a thumb drive for Mac and PC. MiniTool Software will show you the information you want to know in this post.
You use a thumb drive to store files to use them on your computer at home and in your computer/school/local library. Perhaps, your computer at home runs macOS but other computers run Windows-based operating systems or vice versa. In a situation like this, you need to format your thumb drive to a suitable format to make it can be read and written on both Windows and Mac.
If you have a Mac computer and want to format your thumb drive for Windows, you can use Disk Utility to do the job. Of course, you can use it to format other kinds of USB drives like USB flash drives, pen drives, and more.
You can use MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a free Windows files recovery tool, to recover files from a formatted thumb drive on Windows. You can use the free edition to scan your drive for formatted files. If this software works, you can recover up to 1 GB of files without paying any cent. If you want to recover more data, you need to use a full edition.
8. If you want to use this software to recover all your needed files, you need to use a full edition. Likewise, you should not save the selected files to the formatted drive to prevent data from being overwritten.
This post shows you how to format a thumb drive for Mac and PC using different methods. You can select a suitable one based on your situation. Besides, if you accidentally format a USB drive, you can use the two data recovery programs mentioned in this post to help you get your data back.
Want to format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows PC? Do you know how to do this work easily? This MiniTool article will show you specific methods to make external hard drive compatible with Mac and PC, which are easy and safe to complete.
As we know, external hard drives are widely used to backup data or interchange files among different computers. Well, is there an external hard drive that could be shared between Mac and Windows PC? Of course, there is. Actually, most external hard disks could be compatible with Mac and PC as long as you format them correctly.
Currently, hard drives for Windows PC are always formatted with NTFS, while hard disks for Mac are formatted with HFS+. However, when we connect a NTFS formatted disk to Mac, Mac OS X doesn't allow us to write files to the drive neither edit files, though it can read a NTFS drive. Similarly, Windows OS will ask us to format the HFS+ formatted drive when we connecting such a disk, let along edit files saved on HFS+ formatted hard disks unless we resort to third party programs.
But luckily, there are file systems well supported by both Mac and Windows PC, and they are FAT32 (it might be called MS-DOS on Mac) and exFAT. As long as we format the external hard drive to one of these 2 file systems, it can be shared between Mac and Windows.
FUSE for macOS is a free and open-source NTFS driver that can enable write support. But, this solution is slower relatively. And the automatically mounting NTFS partitions in read-write mode can be a security risk for your Mac computer.
To format hard drive for Mac and Windows without data loss, we suggest using MiniTool Partition Wizard and its "Convert NTFS to FATS32" function. If you are a personal user, you can try its Professional Edition.
Here, please select the NTFS partition of external hard drive and choose "Convert NTFS to FAT" feature from the left action pane. If there is more than one NTFS partition, convert all of them one by one.
If there is only one NTFS partition on external hard drive, refer to the tutorial Copy Partition to get instructions. However, if there is more than one NTFS partition, view Copy Disk to get specific operations.
Firstly, open the software to enter its main interface as follows. Here, please select the NTFS partition or HFS+ partition of external hard drive, and click "Delete Partition" feature from the left action pane. If there are multiple partitions on the external disk, please select the disk and click "Delete All Partitions" feature instead. After that, an unallocated space will be released.
Alternatively, you can create 2 partitions on the external hard drive: one is for Mac, and the other is for Windows. As to size for each partition, it depends on your own demands. By this way, you can easily format an external hard drive for Mac and Windows.
Please run MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition, then delete all the original NTFS or HFS+ partition(s), and create a new NTFS partition as well as a FAT32 partition, and the latter will be formatted to HFS+ in Mac machine.
Now, please specify partition label (Windows is recommended), partition type (primary or logical), drive letter, file system (NTFS), cluster size, and partition size (you can change the length of the handle to adjust partition size). Then, click "OK" to continue.
From our posts and comments, it would appear the GUIDs for partitions 2 and 3 have been reversed. (The GUIDs identify the partition types. See this site for specific types.) The third party tool that I use to fix these types of problems is gdisk. You can download the zip file gdisk-windows-1.0.1.zip from this site.
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A simple Google search will tell you that there are tonnes of tools available that works for partition management. But MiniTool has a lot more than that. One of the unique features is that it allows you to clone your entire HDD/SSD or a particular partition.
Instead of taking all those headaches, what if there was a tool that clones your entire drive and you can restore it on a different device? MiniTool does that correctly, and also accurately. In simple terms, MiniTool offers a migrating tool that helps in setting up your new system just like you already have on the old one.
One of the best parts is that it can also recover an entire partition. To explain it, if you have changed the partition after formatting, you can recover back the old structure of the hard drive. From my experience, the company has delivered a little more than my expectation as long as recovering data is concerned. 2ff7e9595c
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