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You must select the drive hardware, above any existing volumes, or the Partition tab will not appear.

Select the external drive hardware in the sidebar.

Start Disk Utility (it's in /Applications/Utilities).

If you have a drive that's using the wrong partition scheme, iPartition, from Coriolis Systems, can change the partition scheme without deleting the data, and can also repartition drives with data in place. Note: partitioning normally erases a drive. To explore the Disk Utility User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field. So, here's what you should do with a new drive. If you’re having problems with a disk, Disk Utility can check the disk and repair problems it detects.

GUID ( aka GPT)*the new partitioning scheme used by Intel Macs.

#Apple disk map Pc

Apple Partition Map*the original partitioning scheme used by the Mac, required for Power PC based Macs.Master Boot Record*this is the partitioning scheme used by Windows, and how most drives are shipped.There are three different "partition schemes" that can be used on the Mac: Most drives come set up for Windows, and while they'll generally work with the Mac, they won't work properly as startup drives.Ī "partition scheme" is the low-level on-drive stricture that is used by the OS to find the "volumes" (the "drives" that appear in Finder*a physical disk can have one or more) on a physical disk. It's very important to properly initialize a drive if you want to be able to use it as a startup drive - whether it's a new backup drive or a new internal drive. Select the options you want, including minimum and quota sizes if desired, and click Addįor older OS versions (pre-10.11), the following should help beyond what Apple has provided.Select "Add APFS Volume" from the Edit menu.Select an APFS volume in the sidebar that's in the container you want to add to.Click the "+" button below the partition diagramĪdd a new APFS volume to an existing APFS container.

#Apple disk map mac

For Apple Partition Map (APM), it is used on old PowerPC Mac devices. While Master Boot Record (MBR) can be used in NTFS format and is only compatible with Windows computers. GUID Partition Map can be used on Intel-based Macs, Apple M1 Macs, and even some latest Windows computers.

Select the external drive in the sidebar Usually, only GUID Partition Map (APM) is available for APFS format.

Choose the "GUID" partition scheme, and the plain APFS format.Īdd an APFS partition to an existing drive.

Select the drive hardware, above the existing volume, in the sidebar.

In Disk Utility's "View" menu, "Show all devices".

The new Disk Utility has some nice features, but they've buried a bunch of stuff in the UI.

#Apple disk map how to

You'll find the article here:Ī lot of people have been confused about how to format their backup drive as APFS ( YES, you can format regular drives as APFS), and are confused about how to get an HFS+ volume on the same drive as an APFS volume. Note: Apple has produced an article that goes into detail about how to do this with recent OS versions.