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azndelirious

 
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I've had a Hitachi 200gb harddrive for a while and i've been using it with my PC formated under file system NTFS.
i recently got a macbook and i tried to format the harddrive to a fat32 so i could use it on both a PC and a mac.
i ended up beingable to format it on my mac to Mac OS extended (journaled) and i can put stuff onto it from my mac etc. but i have a lot of files that i transfered to my old PC so i could attempt to format the external.
does anyone know how i can change it back to a NTFS or a fat32 file system so i can get some files off my old PC?
i downloaded Macdrive 6 and my pc recognizes the device and i can eject the drive but it isn't visible in my computer.
any help? thanks!
-jc

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Hi!

Go to:
(In WIN) Start>Performance and maintenance>administrative tools>Computer Management>Disc Management

Find your disc, right click it and format it the way you want. It is possible that you have to delete the partition first if you already made it into a HFS+ partition on your MAC. (Right click and select "Delete partition"). It then becomes "Unlocated". Then make a new partition and format it.

You can also format the disc in your mac as DOS partition.

MacBook 10.4.8

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thanks so much! it worked =)
but when i do this, under a fat32...the largest partition i can make is 30gb? know why that is?...anything else only allows for NTFS =T
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