You can try different options, such as using Disk Utility's First Aid. Input new partition name, and use '+' and '-' button on the left to determine the size of the partition. At this point, your Mac usually finds your internal hard drive (or SSD). In Disk Utility, select the SSD(not the partition under), then select Partition button on top of Disk Utility.Ħ. Opened Disk Utility (Applications ->Utilities -> Disk Utility) and erased the empty SSD and formatted it (Mac OS Journaled Extended) Copied the contents of my. You can also create multiple partitions in one SSD. After you click Erase, the erase will start and the partition you created will appear under the drive on left side of Disk Utility.ĥ. Please choose GUID Partition Map as Scheme. Otherwise you can choose either OS X Extended or ExFAT as format. Input your desired name of the partition, if you plan to install Mac OS onto the partition,choose OS X Extended(Journaled) as format. Now drag and drop the destination Disk/Drive.

Select the target drive, drag it and drop it at the 'Source' field. Then at the Mac Disk Utility interface, click 'Restore'. Then hit 'Erase' again and wait for the drive to remount on Mac. Select the SSD and then select Erase button on top of disk utilityĤ. At the drop-down list which has 'Format' options, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Disk Utility will pop up, if not, open Disk Utility and you shall see the SSD listed under Externalģ. Connect your SanDisk® SSD to your Apple Mac system via USB adaptor, the Mac OS will pop up a message: 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer', please select InitializeĢ. If your drive does not show in the sidebar, quit Disk Utility and then reselect it from the menu. Once Disk Utility is open, select the View button on the upper left of the window and select Show all Devices. This will be Option 4 in the menu option that is presented when you boot up into recovery. Procedure may be different with other OS versions.ġ. Use Disk Utility to format the new drive. This guide uses Mac OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.5.

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