![]() However, there are still some instances where HFS+ needs to be used. #HIW TO INITIALIZE DRIVE APFS FULL#įor example, APFS is incompatible with Apple’s Time Machine backup application and FileVault 2 (which is used to encrypt full drives), and cannot be used to format Fusion drives - those drives that use a combination of a solid-state drive and conventional hard disk drive. What if you accidentally format a drive in the APFS format and then realize you can’t use Time Machine or FileVault 2? I recently ran into this dilemma when I formatted an external drive in the APFS format and it was unusable by Time Machine. In this tech tip, I’ll show you how to revert back to HFS+. How to format your drive APFS on macOS Open Disk Utility Click View in the upper left and select Show All Devices Select the non-indented entry, you will see. You can’t just use Disk Utility to reformat an APFS disk to HFS+ - once it has been converted to APFS, the only options that appear for erasing an APFS disk are to reformat in APFS. The method I’m showing here requires some familiarity with the Terminal application, which can be found in /Applications/Utilities.
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