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If it does, then give the amount of partitions you wanted and proceed. Then go to Sidebar and check Hard disks and External disks there as well. Make sure you tick the boxes next to External disks and Hard disks. Follow Preferences General Show these items on the desktop. The Scheme only appears in Disk Utility (highlighting in red added) when you opt to show all devices. In Disk Utility (with GUI), even if options are grayed out, try to partition that disk - partition to 2 or 1, does not matter, just to see if the partitioning get done properly. To fix that, go to Finder and click on the Finder button in the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Now, you can select a drive, click Erase, and view the Scheme options for the drive as well as the default format type applied when the drive has completed applying the new scheme.

From the View menu in the upper-left corner, select Show All Devices, and you will see the hierarchy of drive > volume (most formats) or drive > container > volume (APFS).

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