Select the drop-down under “Volume Scheme” to select the number of partitions you want (usually, one). Connect the removable device in the left panel. Open Disk Utility by opening “Applications” from the Dock, and then “Utilities”. Please make sure to migrate any data from the device as repartitioning it will erase all data. To create a removable drive that will work with MacDrive, you can use either Disk Utility or the MacDrive Disk Manager.

MacDrive does, however, support Mac-formatted removables with the partition types of APM (Apple Partition Map) or MBR (Master Boot Record), either of which can be created with Disk Utility. A removable device can be identified as it will appear in the “Devices with Removable Storage” area of when viewing available drives (‘Computer’ in Windows 7/Vista, ‘My Computer’ in XP). This is because Windows does not currently support GPT removable devices of any kind, including those formatted NTFS, the most common Windows disk formatting type. Removable devices, such as flash drives, cannot be GPT partitioned and work with MacDrive. You can simply connect the disk to your computer, and MacDrive will be able to access the disk and assign it a drive letter. No additional software is needed to access a Mac-formatted disk that is GPT partitioned. Fixed disks can include internal hard drives, but can also include portable devices such as external hard drives which connect via USB, FireWire, etc. MacDrive fully supports GPT partitioning for fixed disks. When formatting Mac-formatted disks, such as HFS+ or HFS+J, in Disk Utility, current versions of the Mac OS typically use GPT as the default partition type. GPT (GUID Partition Table) is a partition type for disks. Optional secure file deletion (overwrites files to prevent recovery) Mounts Mac-formatted software RAID sets (created with Disk Utility on Mac OS)Īutomatic file defragmentation (improves performance)Ĭan optionally configure individual Mac disk(s) as “read only” (prevents any changes) Mount SoftRAID sets (RAID 0/stripe and RAID 1/mirror).

Mount dual-format Mac optical discs (Mac/Windows) Mount Mac OS partition on Boot Camp systemsĬan optionally configure MacDrive to globally set all disks as “read only” (prevents any changes)Īutomatic notification of available MacDrive updates (if enabled)īrowse and copy files out of Time Machine backupsĬompatible with GPT, MBR, APT partition types Supports USB (including 3.0), FireWire 400/800, eSATA, SATA, IDE, SCSI, Fibre channel, Thunderbolt Note: This setting is off by default to increase performance Supports Mac files without extensions (converts TYPE and CREATOR fields to Windows extensions) Mount Mac optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) Read/write to Mac hard disks, devices, etc. Mount Mac hard disks and devices in Windows (HFS+, HFS, HFS, including journaled and non-journaled)

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