La Cie HD Hard Drive formatting for Mac

barbsdavies · barbsdavies #1 (**permalink**)

01-24-2012, 12:22 PM

I bought a La Cie HD hard drive and had to format using disk utility in order to make it writable on my Mac. Disk utility only gave me the option to format the partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but the user manual says I need to format the drive as Mac OS Extended - not journaled

I'm running Lion OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBook Air.

Please Help!!

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #2 (**permalink**)

01-24-2012, 12:38 PM

I'm unclear as to why journaling would cause a problem. Have you tried formatting it as a journaled file system?

barbsdavies · barbsdavies #3 (**permalink**)

01-24-2012, 01:59 PM

I did. Tried it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) & the tv doesn't register it?

Dysfunction · Dysfunction #4 (**permalink**)

01-24-2012, 02:20 PM

OH! You're plugging this into a TV!

Try this.

Disk Utility->select a volume you want that has journaling enabled, OPTION-click on File menubar option and select Disable Journaling.

Dysfunction #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 17, 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 6,534 Mac Specs: 2008 and 2011 15" mbps, late 11 iMac, iPhone 4s, and too many ipods and other stuff	01-24-2012, 12:38 PM I'm unclear as to why journaling would cause a problem. Have you tried formatting it as a journaled file system? mike This machine kills fascists Got # ? phear the command line!
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Member Since: Jan 24, 2012 Posts: 2	01-24-2012, 12:22 PM I bought a La Cie HD hard drive and had to format using disk utility in order to make it writable on my Mac. Disk utility only gave me the option to format the partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but the user manual says I need to format the drive as Mac OS Extended - not journaled I'm running Lion OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBook Air. Please Help!!
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