#Mac disk utility secure erase time for free#
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#Mac disk utility secure erase time Patch#

Some older operating systems must have a patch installed before they can use the exFAT file system. NOTE: MacOS 10.6.2 or higher is required for exFAT file system. NOTE: exFAT can be used on flash drives or memory cards to transfer files larger than 4GB. NOTE: exFAT is used on SDXC card (64GB and higher). When finished, the drive will be formatted and repartitioned successfully.

Choose Master Boot Record for the Schemeĥ.

Choose exFAT or MS-DOS (FAT) for the format.

Choose how you would like to format the drive Select the upper level of the drive you would like to format and click the Erase buttonĤ. In the top menu bar, go to View, and choose Show All Devicesģ.

#Mac disk utility secure erase time how to#

Please See Answer 20985: How to access Disk Utility macOSĢ. Instructions below are for 10.13.x (High Sierra)ġ. Select this capacity.Ħ. Verify Volume Format is set to MS-DOS file system or exFAT, Scheme is set to “Master Boot Record” ( Do NOT select GUID Partition Map) then click Erase. Select the capacity of the drive respective to the one containing the device you wish to format then click the Erase tab.Įxample: If the drive is called 'NO NAME', directly above that, you should see the drive capacity of 'XXXX'.

On the left side of the window are the drives connected to the computer. Click the Applications folder - if using a Finder Window Applications will be in the left side menu.ĥ. Double-click on Macintosh HD - or in the Finder menu click File > New Finder WindowĢ. Instructions below are for 10.11.x (El Capitan) and 10.12.x (Sierra)ġ. Many thanks for any advice, and nice to meet ya.WARNING: Formatting will erase all data on the device. But I don't know how they came to this conclusion, or how to replicate their process. I'd read a number of posts from users who experienced the same error, and who said the process seemed to have worked in spite of the error. Given that this feature is clearly unreliable, it'd be nice to be able to check it's work. Scroll down and click on the Utilities folder. Click on Applications in the left window. If I could see them before erasure, and compare to after erasure, then I'd know whether the erasure has done it's job. Click on the Spotlight icon on the top right of the menu bar.

#Mac disk utility secure erase time software#

I'd like software that will allow me to see the files that have been deleted (trash emptied). Perhaps this question will advance the topic. Three hours later the globe was still spinning, and it was nap time for Granda Geezer Hippy, so I powered down out of it. When I did the Command R start it went automatically in to Internet recovery, you know, with the spinning globe. That generated the error, so I did a little research and discovered the process you refer to above. The first time I did it I just clicked erase free space in disk utility. Follow these steps: Select the volume (not the physical disk, and not an SSD) in the sidebar Click the Erase button Click on Security Options Select the level of secure erase in the next window by moving the. Check about this mac, storage to see if free space was erased.' However, if youre wanting to do this with a HDD (and not an SSD), the option is still there in Disk Utility, although its changed. 'I was attempting to erase free space on my laptop with mac disk utility and received the error message could not create temporary file and found the free space had been erased. I was reading some more about this issue, and from one of the links, one of the users posted this: But at least CCleaner seems to be a viable option. Yes, it is frustrating that an explanation/solution cannot be found.

#Mac disk utility secure erase time for free#

It can be obtained for free from Piriform, and here is the link:Īnd, some folks did have success with it. I did see, though, a recommendation to use the software CCleaner. I just did a google search of 'secure erase failed - couldn't create temporary file', and I did not see one single explanation of how to alleviate this error with Disk Utility. But, I was erasing the entire contents of the drive, so it is somewhat different. The last (and most secure) option, called 35-pass, took over 3 days, but I never got any such error.

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I then decided it need to be replaced (have subsequently done that with a 512 gig Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig SSD), I of course needed to dispose of the drive, so I went ahead and attached the drive to the MacBook Pro, and did ALL levels of the Erase process that Disk Utility offers. Recently, one of my 1 TB Seagate External Drives started giving me issues, in that TechTool Pro kept warning me that the drive was starting to fail.

I have an older 17' MacBook Pro, and it has the last version of Snow Leopard, OS 10.6.8, on it.