Tom’s Mac Tips: Apple Partition Types: How and When You Can Use Them

by Tom Nelson

Apple’s Disk Utility is the go-to app for working with a Mac’s storage system. With Disk Utility, you can repair, erase, partition, and format a drive.

Image courtesy of Apple

But one thing that seems to confuse many of you is which partition scheme to use when setting up a drive. Apple supports three different partition schemes: GUID, Apple Partition Map, and Master Boot Record.

Read more on About: Macs.

Advertisements