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I have to erase & reformat WD Passport?
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<blockquote data-quote="rcronin" data-source="post: 568415" data-attributes="member: 24079"><p><a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=461" target="_blank">http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=461</a> Good info here - an excerpt: The most important thing is to have an Oxford-based FireWire bridge chipset. Prolific and Initio "Oxford compatible" chipsets often have problems with OSX, both when copying and trying to boot.</p><p></p><p>Finally, since some release of 10.4 after 10.4.0, probably right around the time Boot Camp came out, Disk Utility started being able to format a partition as HFS+, even though the underlying partition scheme is Master Boot Record (Windows).</p><p></p><p>Macs cannot start up from volumes that are partitioned with Master Boot Record, regardless of chip. So, make sure your external drives are partitioned with APM (if you want them to work with both Intel and Power PC Macs) or GUID (if you're only working with Intel).</p><p></p><p>...if anyone's interested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rcronin, post: 568415, member: 24079"] [url]http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=461[/url] Good info here - an excerpt: The most important thing is to have an Oxford-based FireWire bridge chipset. Prolific and Initio "Oxford compatible" chipsets often have problems with OSX, both when copying and trying to boot. Finally, since some release of 10.4 after 10.4.0, probably right around the time Boot Camp came out, Disk Utility started being able to format a partition as HFS+, even though the underlying partition scheme is Master Boot Record (Windows). Macs cannot start up from volumes that are partitioned with Master Boot Record, regardless of chip. So, make sure your external drives are partitioned with APM (if you want them to work with both Intel and Power PC Macs) or GUID (if you're only working with Intel). ...if anyone's interested. [/QUOTE]
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