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Minitool Partition How To Format For Mac

Damaged Partition Recovery”: this is the most powerful module in Power Data Recovery, for it can help recover data from existing partition for any condition. For example, it is capable of retrieving data from formatted partition, raw partition, and partition Windows asks to format it. Thus, you can change partition size easily on Mac OS. I believe now you are not afraid of resizing partition size. I have discussed thoroughly how to change partition size in Windows, Ubuntu, and Mac OS. And none of them are difficult. There are also many softwares to do it which have been discussed also.

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  • ① Use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free: Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard Free on your PC. Then follow the guide below: Step 1. Launch this free partition manager to get the main interface. Find the external hard drive that needs to be formatted and click 'Format' from the action panel.
  • Please connect the external hard disk in advance and make sure it’s appeared on Mac. Then, select the disk that you want to format from the left sidebar. After that, you should click on the Erase button in the right pane. Give the disk a Name (the maximum length is 11 characters).

About Extend Partition

Extend Partition directly takes free space from any other existing partitions or unallocated space to enlarge a partition on the same disk while Move/Resize Partition requires contiguous unallocated space. Under the following 2 situations, Extend Partition is suggested.

  1. Extend a partition to non-contiguous unallocated or free space.
  2. There is no unallocated or free space on the disk.

How to Extend Partition

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Tip: To extend C drive without boot issue, it is recommended that users create a MiniTool bootable media first, use it to boot computer then, and extend C drive finally in the boot mode.

Step 1. Run MiniTool Partition Wizard to get its main interface. Then, select the partition which needs extending and choose Extend Partition from the left action panel or choose Extend from the right-click menu.

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Step 2. Open the drop-down list of Take Free Space from and choose a partition or unallocated space to take free space. Then, drag the sliding handle leftwards or rightwards to decide how much space to take, with partition size changing intuitively. After that, click OK to continue.

Step 3. Click Apply button to apply changes.

This is the end of MiniTool Partition Wizard Tutorial to Extend Partition.