Formatting the new Hard Drive...
 

I am as ignorant as they come when it comes to anything electrical, mechanical, etc.

It is a sad existence.

I upgraded recently to an Intel Mac and successfully pulled my media drive out of my old Mac and got it into my new one. How? I 'youtubed' it and found a 46 second tutorial. Hey, it beats paying my nearest Apple store a hundred bucks to do it!

Anyways... I'm going to run out of room soon on this hard drive and will need another. I can install a hard drive... but formatting? What up?! Someone tell me it's simple and there's nothing to it (and then laugh at me later).

Is it the start-up drive or an external drive? It's not clear.

Heath

Are you replacing the single internal drive on a laptop or one of the (4) internals in a Mac Pro?

I recommend getting a drive enclosure from Find the latest Performance Upgrades, Firewire and USB Hard Drives, SATA, Memory, Laptop Battery, and more at OWC and putting the old drive in it. That's what I did recently when I swapped out my old drive for a bigger one in my MacBook.

heath

It will another internal drive... 500GB... and slide it into the 3rd bay. It will be just for media for editing.

Then format it as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

heath