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You have an external hard drive in which you would like, for example, to have both the Time Machine backup , as well as all your music files and your photos. To separate both functions well, ideally divide the hard disk into two partitions , so you can use all the space you have for totally different things. Making a hard … Read more

Have you ever wondered how to format your pen drive or your portable hard drive in Mac OS X? In here we want to teach you the step by step following a few simple steps with the Disk Utility that incorporates our Mac. How to change the format of an external hard drive for Macbook Time Machine Backup How to … Read more

You can erase and reformat an entire volume. If the volume contains data, it will be deleted when erasing and reformatting the volume; so make sure you back up the data if you want to keep them. WARNING: To erase the computer’s startup disk, you must boot it from another disk. Before erasing the boot disk, be sure to … Read more

When dividing a storage device, individual partitions are created, which appear as separate volumes in the Devices section of the Finder sidebar. You may need to split a disk into partitions if you want to install multiple operating systems or if you need to change the format of the device. How to change the format of … Read more

Is it possible to create a new partition on a disk that we are already using, containing data, and without losing them? If that is possible using Disk Utility, tool already included in Mac OS X. In the following example, we will create a second partition on an external USB hard drive. How to change … Read more

For years, we have stored very valuable information on our hard drive: vacation photos, movies, music … Now, with the cloud, this is changing little by little but it is still a fact that in our computer we have many things that we would not like to lose. There are many ways to put it in a … Read more

What is Fusion Drive? Fusion Drive  is an Apple technology that allows you to join the storage of several hard drives in one to be able to use all the space, but optimizing the speed, so that having two disks, the SSD is reserved for what we access more frequently and the traditional hard disk for … Read more

Learn how to “fiddle with your Mac” without having to go through the process of reinstalling the operating system Having the Mac as clean as possible is something that any of its owners are looking for. It is important that the performance of our equipment is adequate so that when we work with them we feel comfortable. To have … Read more

When formatting an internal or external volume, you can encrypt and protect it with a password. If you encrypt an internal disk, you must enter a password to access the disk and its information. If you encrypt an external device, you must enter the password when connecting the device to the computer. How to change the format … Read more