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First see how the hard drive is formatted

Right Click on the Hard Drive and Choose

Get Info

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Hard Drive should be Mac OS Extended

Journaled

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Click on the Lock to change permissions

Make sure Ignore Ownership is checked

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NOTE THIS WORKFLOW WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE WIPING ALL DATA OFF OF IT -

MAKE SURE THERE IS NOTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE YOU NEED BEFORE PROCEEDING

How To Format a Hard Drive for Macintosh Computers

Open Disk Utility

Go to Macintosh HD

Applications >Utilities>

Disk Utility

Pick the drive you want to reformat


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Click Erase



Choose the Volume Format: as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)APFS

Name the drive then click

Erase in the lower right corner to erase the drive

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How to format a hard drive in Windows.

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