Gary my buddy would like me to format a drive he bought that is formatted in NTFS. I have formatted thumbdrives to HFS+ that come FAT32 with Disk Utility but will the mac see that NTFS drive to format as a FAT32?
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Disk Utility will see the drive, yes. Format it as FAT32 to use with Mac and Windows. Format it as Apple Extended to use only on Mac.
One other thing Gary. When I finish formatting it. I will be moving about 500GB of data over from one of my Harddrives. I know of course I can copy from finder but can't I do a sorta carbon copy from Disk Utility? I think its called restore from another drive to another?
And is it faster this way? That is the reason I am asking about this option. Thanks
It should be the same speed as the same amount of data is being transferred. But just copying files gives you more control.
Yea I figured it would be same speed, but last time I did a big copy like that, the Finder became very sluggish and for good reason I suppose. I was just wondering if the Disk Utility copy would take less resources off of finder.
Of course I will try it to find out:)