Insert the flash drive or hard drive you want to format for Windows compatibility. Go to the Applications folder on your Mac’s hard drive, then go to the Utilities folder, and launch Disk Utility. Select the drive you want to format. Warning: the following steps will delete any info you currently have on the drive. It doesn’t necessarily matter; as soon as it’s visible by the volatile OS X system, we can erase, format and install the OS onto the drive – Hazzaob Nov 25 '17 at 2:34 If you're following this to format a Network drive to APFS, you won't be able to do the conversion from HFS to APFS, as Apple has dropped support through their Disk Utility.
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Disk Utility User Guide
Disk Utility on Mac supports several file system formats:
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Apple File System (APFS), the default file system for Mac computers using macOS 10.13 or later, features strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, fast directory sizing, and improved file system fundamentals. While APFS is optimized for the Flash/SSD storage used in recent Mac computers, it can also be used with older systems with traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and external, direct-attached storage. macOS 10.13 or later supports APFS for both bootable and data volumes.
APFS allocates disk space within a container on demand. The disk’s free space is shared and can be allocated to any of the individual volumes in the container as needed. If desired, you can specify reserve and quota sizes for each volume. Each volume uses only part of the overall container, so the available space is the total size of the container, minus the size of all the volumes in the container.
Choose one of the following APFS formats for Mac computers using macOS 10.13 or later.
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You can easily add or delete volumes in APFS containers. Each volume within an APFS container can have its own APFS format—APFS, APFS (Encrypted), APFS (Case-sensitive), or APFS (Case-sensitive, Encrypted).
Mac OS Extended
Choose one of the following Mac OS Extended file system formats for compatibility with Mac computers using macOS 10.12 or earlier.
Windows-compatible formatsFormat Thumb Drive For Mac Os X High Sierra Download
Choose one of the following Windows-compatible file system formats if you are formatting a disk to use with Windows.
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See alsoPartition schemes available in Disk Utility on MacAbout Disk Utility on Mac
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