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In a word, Macrorit Data Wiper is to wipe disk to its original status, factory reset it, you are able to use format it to any file system in any operating system before using.How to COMPLETELY WIPE a Hard Drive and PREVENT DATA …Ĭan you completely wipe a hard drive? Yes, you can completely wipe a hard drive, but you’ll need to do more than simply delete the files stored on it. Choose NTFS or FAT32 in file system column, define cluster size, assign drive letter, and give drive label to this volume and click OK after resize this volume.Now this disk turns into unallocated space, click on it, and "Create Volume".Choose Partitioning scheme from MBR or GPT and click OK.Right-click on Mac Hard Drive (now it's clean), and select "Initialize" to continue.
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Download Macrorit Partition Expert install package or Portable package.Steps to format Mac Hard Drive to NTFS or FAT32 in Windows 10:
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HFS plus is also known as HFS +, HFS Extended, Mac OS Extended, is a file system developed by Apple Inc., not apply to Windows OS. Since the disk is now clean, no file system, no EFI partition in it, its factory settings, so we need to initialize this disk and create partition on it. Mac Hard Drive's file system is HFS plus in the recent released OS, which cannot be recognized by Windows, so we need to format this disk after wiped in Data Wiper to make is useful in Windows 10.
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What if Mac won't boot, CMD+R can't work either? There's another way to wipe Mac hard drive clean and factory setting it in Windows system, not to format or delete volume in Windows Disk Management, but wipe this disk in third party disk manager, Macrorit Data Wiper.
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Everything on the disk has been wiped, it's a clean Mac now, and it's safe to donate or share it with others. Now we have this OS reinstalled, it runs smooth as it were.
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When Mac OS is running slow, it's better to reinstall the system again instead of carefully cleaning up files if you want to donate Mac hard drive, or give it to family members using Windows system, you can wipe it and format the hard drive to NTFS or FAT32 in Windows disk manager.