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Full hard drive wont format

deadanonymau5 · 2017-11-29 20:51:17

Hi all Got a new 8TB hard drive and am having problems formatting it. I want to format it to exfat but get a messageing saying Is that referring to my MBP? I bought the hard drive to put stuff on it as my hard drive on my MBP is full :(:mad:

29-11-2017 9:51pm

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deadanonymau5

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Hi all

Got a new 8TB hard drive and am having problems formatting it. I want to format it to exfat but get a messageing saying

Mediakit reportsnot enough space on device for requested operation.Operation failed

Is that referring to my MBP? I bought the hard drive to put stuff on it as my hard drive on my MBP is full :mad:

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#2 30-11-2017 10:09pm

ZENER

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Try this ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/40yvjh/disk_utility_fails_to_eraseformat_an_external_hdd/

Ken

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