How do I change the format of a hard drive I have to make it work with my imac

My friend has given me a hard drive to put some stuff on it for him, but it's formatted to Windows NT File System (VTFS) and I need to change it to MS-DOS (FAT32). How do I do this?
Thanks

If you don't want to format the external disk, you can use a third-party application like Parallels NTFS.
That's the most recommended way. However, if you want to format your external disk in FAT32, you can do it without any problem.
First, open a Finder window, select the external disk in the Finder sidebar under "Devices", and copy all the data to a different folder.
Then, open Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities), choose your external disk in the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk. Make sure you have selected "MS-DOS (FAT)" in "Format". If you need detailed steps to do this, see > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
Finally, copy all the data to that external disk. You can also use exFAT, but in that case, you will have to format the external disk in a PC

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