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fotomike

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 25, 2007
22
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in my own world
Hi all,
I am a new convert, and I have two external HD that I would like to re-format using disk utility and formatting in the MS_DOS mode.

My problem:
When I connect the external drive to the mac a screen pops up and tell me the drive is unrecognizable and ask me if I wait to initialize it. I do that and the drive shows up in the disk utility screen. I select the drive, select the ms-dos format select the title and hit erase. Then an “are you sure” screen pops up and I hit erase again.

Then nothing happens: about 2 minutes go by and a spinning pinwheel looking think pops up and sits there. Two hours later the same thing, a progress bar never shows up and the drive is doing nothing.

Additional info:
hd: 240 gb
usb 2.0, no fire wire
usb is running through a powered usb 2.0 hub (but tried it w/o hub too)
 

iJawn108

macrumors 65816
Apr 15, 2006
1,198
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you're trying to do with while os x is running? or this is a completely blank drive(im tired so i might not be thinking clearly at all :eek: )
have you tried the partician tool? it should take it back to "untitled" and not "macintosh hd" :confused: It should work but like I said return it to a single partition.
 

fotomike

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 25, 2007
22
0
in my own world
the only thing on the drive is the formatting by windows XP and photos. I have all ready back up the photos and I'm trying to erace the entire drive.
 
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