Hi t, and welcome to Apple Discussions. The hard drive (HD) needs to be partitioned and formatted before being used. 1. Connect the external HD to the MBP. 2. Open Disk Utility on the MBP. 3. Select the external HD in the left pane. 4. Click on the Erase tab. 5. Choose the Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). NOTE: if you want to zero the HD (which I always think is a good idea, but does take time), click on Security Options, click the button for Zero Out Data, click OK. The larger the HD, the longer this will take, in some cases several hours. 6. Click on Erase and wait for the entire process to finish. 7. Click the Partition tab. 8. Click on Volume Scheme: and choose the number of partitions (just one in most cases). 9. Click on the Options button (located underneath the Volume Scheme pane) and select GUID. 10. Click Apply. 11. Quit Disk Utility. Message was edited by: tjk
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