I’ve just got a new hard drive but my Mac won’t accept it as boot drive unless it’s formatted in a macOS readable format – it’s simply not readable by the volatile system (which is what’s run if no OS is found). I’ve ordered a USB to SATA cable to format the drive from another Mac, but can I format the drive, as OS X extended journaled, in Windows?
tl:dr –> How do I format (or partition) a clean SSD as OS X Extended (Journaled), as opposed to exFAT etc., from a PC?
Best Answer
Windows is able to write data to create a HFS+ disk.
Edit: The aim was to produce a disk in Windows that can be read as a boot drive by the volatile OS X system- this works and thus is a valid solution