In addition to the formatting, the partition scheme for managing the volumes on the drive will also need to be correct for the OS X boot drive.

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

Guide to create a new partition and install Mac OS X El Capitan to dual boot OS X Yosemite.

By using the Diskpart utility, you can create partitions on a hard drive, delete partitions from a hard drive, format a particular partition on a hard drive, etc.

Learn how to fix Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk issue while formatting a partition/volume in dual boot.

In order to use a hard drive, or a portion of a hard drive, in Windows you need to first partition it and then format it. This process will then assign a drive letter to the partition allowing you ...

If not, use Disk Utility to resize the current HFS+ partition non-destructively to be smaller, use Boot Camp to create an NTFS partition for Windows, and format the third shared partition as ExFAT.