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It is very easy to quick format portable hard drive on Windows PC. However, it is very complex to reformat or format portable hard drive on Mac. All the Mac users need an easy solution to format or reformat portable hard drive on Mac. So we develop a tool called Super Eraser for Mac to help Mac users to easily and securely format/reformat portable hard drive on Mac.

How to Format or Reformat Portable Hard Drive with Super Eraser for Mac?

Super Eraser for Mac offers secure and efficient to format/reformat portable hard drive. But unlike quick format on PC, the reformat/format of Super Eraser for Mac will permanently erase the existing files, deleted/lost files and history traces. It means all the files are lost forever after formatting your portable hard drive with Super Eraser for Mac. There is no way to recover the formatted data. So please copy your important files to your computer temporarily.

The reformat/format operation is pretty simple. First of all, please download Super Eraser for Mac and install it on your Mac. Then run it and connect your portable hard drive with your Mac. Here are the steps of formatting/reformatting portable hard drive on Mac with Super Eraser for Mac: Select Wipe Hard Drive --> Choose your portable hard drive --> Click on "Wipe Now" button.

1. Choose mode Wipe Hard Drive and choose the portable hard drive.

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2. Click Wipe Now button to securely format the portable hard drive and permanently erase all data on the portable hard drive.

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3. When process gets finished, you can check the formatted portable hard drive.

reformat or format portable hard drive on Mac

It is very easy to format or reformat portable hard drive on Mac with Super Eraser for Mac. However, as we said before, please back up your important files to other hard drive before you use Super Eraser for Mac to format your portable hard drive. Super Eraser for Mac only wipes the data from your portable hard drive, will not affect the service life of your portable hard drive.

Now you get an easy solution to easily format or reformat portable hard drive on Mac. So you can ensure you will not become a victim of data leakage. There are many reasons why you should format or reformat your portable hard drive. The most common reason is regaining the full storage by cleaning up all the data into your portable hard drive. Super Eraser for Mac can help you easily format or reformat your portable hard drive on Mac to let you get a "New" portable hard drive.

However, the in some cases you must format or reformat your portable hard drive to avoid privacy concerns. Many Mac users use portable hard drives to store important & private files including work documents, financial information files, family photos, precious videos, etc. If these files fall into the wrong hands, the consequences would be unimaginable. As we know, the normal deletion or format can’t permanently wipe the data from the portable hard drive. With the help of Mac data recovery software, anyone can recover your deleted/formatted files from your portable hard drive.

Super Eraser for Mac can remove all your worries. It will help you easily format or reformat your portable hard drive on Mac and permanently destroy & wipe all the existing/history data without affecting the service life of the portable hard drive. So before you resell, donate or throw away old portable hard drive, just use Super Eraser for Mac to permanently format or reformat it on Mac.

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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