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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1141079" data-attributes="member: 46727">According to iOmega, those drives are formatted to FAT-32 at the factory.&nbsp; If you used Disk Utility from your Mac to format the drive to FAT-32, chances are that you formatted it incorrectly. Here's why:&nbsp; Disk Utility defaults to using the GUID partitioning scheme which creates a small EFI (200 MB) partition on the drive.&nbsp; That effectively makes the drive useless for certain applications such as your media player hooked to the TV.&nbsp; You need to wipe that drive clean and start over in order for it to work.Follow the directions given at this web site:&nbsp; <a href="http://pitumbo.com/how-delete-gpt-partition-or-efi-mac-hard-disks-vista-or-xp" target="_blank">LINK</a>&nbsp; Note that you will need access to a Windows PC and Disk Manager in order to correct the format on that drive.&nbsp; Be sure to create a partition on the drive once it's clean.Next, since Disk Manager can not format a drive that large to FAT-32, you'll have to resort to either using something like <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php" target="_blank">GParted</a> or use Disk Utility once more.If you use Disk Utility, be sure to choose the &quot;MBR&quot; partitioning scheme not the GUID, or you'll be back to where you were before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1141079, member: 46727"] According to iOmega, those drives are formatted to FAT-32 at the factory. If you used Disk Utility from your Mac to format the drive to FAT-32, chances are that you formatted it incorrectly. Here's why: Disk Utility defaults to using the GUID partitioning scheme which creates a small EFI (200 MB) partition on the drive. That effectively makes the drive useless for certain applications such as your media player hooked to the TV. You need to wipe that drive clean and start over in order for it to work. Follow the directions given at this web site: [URL="http://pitumbo.com/how-delete-gpt-partition-or-efi-mac-hard-disks-vista-or-xp"]LINK[/URL] Note that you will need access to a Windows PC and Disk Manager in order to correct the format on that drive. Be sure to create a partition on the drive once it's clean. Next, since Disk Manager can not format a drive that large to FAT-32, you'll have to resort to either using something like [URL="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php"]GParted[/URL] or use Disk Utility once more. If you use Disk Utility, be sure to choose the "MBR" partitioning scheme not the GUID, or you'll be back to where you were before. [/QUOTE]

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