Convert External Hard Drive To Apfs
Systems with hard disk drives (HDD) and Fusion drives won't be converted to APFS. You can't opt-out of the transition to APFS. Using Disk Utility app create an APFS volume on your external disk. Make sure that your external disk use GUID partition scheme. It’s also important that created APFS volume size is equal or bigger than the source system volume. Let's name the external disk volume as BackupClone. This site has instructions on how to convert your drive to APFS. Restart the Mac into Recovery Mode. Launch Disk utility. Click-select your named boot volume. (Not the physical drive above it.) In the Disk Utility Edit menu, select “Convert to APFS; More detailed instructions are given in the link above. Highlight the main drive (left side window pane) and then click on the Erase tab. Make sure format is 'Mac OS Extended Journaled' and ensure that the scheme is set to 'GUID Partition Map' 6. Click on erase button. Right click on that partition of the drive 'untitled' or 'No Name' 8. Select 'convert to APFS' 9. Please wait during. Convert external ssd to apfs, Dec 19, 2018 It’s an i7 with 3TB HD plus 128GB SSD, believe my, it’s an upgrade! When setting it up with the Mojave installer, I was able to use Disk Utility from the installer to format it as a 3.12TB APFS Fusion drive.
On macOS Big Sur 11/Catalina 10.15/Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13, the default file system is Apple File System, which will be automatically converted to on SSD Mac internal drives. Besides that, we may also want to convert/format external drives to APFS manually, such as external hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, memory cards, Pen drives and more.
This article will show you how to convert/format an external drive to APFS, as well as how to recover lost data from APFS external drives if unfortunately data loss happened.
Easy method to convert/format external drive to APFS
Follow the steps below to convert/format external drive to APFS:
Step 1: Open Disk Utility.
Step 2: Click on the 'View' menu at the upper left corner and choose 'Show All Devices'.
Step 3: Select the external drive that we want to convert to APFS, and then click 'Erase' at the top of the window.
Step 4: Set the scheme as 'GUID Partition Map', then complete name and choose format (APFS).
Step 5: Click 'Erase' and wait until conversion finishes.
It should be noted that though APFS has improved a lot on data security, it can't be completely exempted from data loss problem. We may also lose files on APFS drive after accidental deletion or format, drive becoming unmountable, unreadable, corrupted. So we'd better learn how to recover lost data from APFS external drive.
How to recover lost data from APFS external drive?
iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac is all we need to get lost files from APFS external drive. It is aAPFS data recovery software that can recover deleted/lost files from APFS external drive, recover lost data from formatted APFS external drive, recover lost data from unreadable APFS external drive, recover lost data from unmountable APFS external drive, recover lost data from corrupted APFS external drive, recover lost data from encrypted APFS external drive, etc.
Besides, iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac can alsorecover lost data from APFS hard drive, recover lost data from FAT32 drives, exFAT drives, HFS+ drives, no matter the drives are formatted, unmountable, corrupted or unreadable.
Tutorial to recover lost data from APFS external drive with iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac
Step 1: Connect the APFS external drive to Mac with and then launch iBoysoft Data Recovery.
Step 2: Select the APFS external drive where we have lost files.
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Step 3: Click 'Next' to start scanning for lost files.
Step 4: Preview the listed scanning results, choose those we want, and click 'Recover' to get them back.
Step 5: Have a check to ensure we have got all lost files back.
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I've recently updated my MacBook pro to macOs High Sierra 10.13.4 and i realized that my external hard drive is no longer readable by my mac giving me a message saying 'the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer' and after searching for a solution i found out that i have to convert my hard drive to APFS to be able to use it again and that i will have to erase it using the disk utility app.
so i was wondering if erasing it will delete all of my files on my hard drive?
i wanted to know if anyone has tried it without getting all of their stuff deleted?
i have a macbook pro (retina, 13 inch, late 2013) and a WD my passport external hard drive which worked perfectly fine right before i installed the update.
i have also used the first aid in the disk utility app which didn't help.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.4), WD My Passport External Hard Drive
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Posted on Apr 19, 2018 7:02 AM