Change the format of external hard drive for mac

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Sometimes you may need to write some files to a locked drive only once, and you can do this with built-in Mac tools.

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We recommend you do not rely on this method for writing to important volumes or as a long-term solution. There is a very real chance that something could go wrong, resulting in a loss of data on the target drive. Warning! The following steps describe a method of enabling the experimental NTFS support in macOS.