Almost 4 year old HD is toast... External HD Question

[Surfing@Blacks]

I have a Macbook that I got between 3 to 4 years ago. My computer froze and I powered it down and restarted it then I got the gray screen that is beeping with the folder and the question mark. I went into Disk Utilities and couldn't find my hard drive anywhere. I assume that it is toast. I have a 120gb external hard drive that I would like to install Leopard on. Is there a specific format I need to setup my external hard drive to do this task? Or can I just install it right into my external hard drive as is from the disk and find that external HD on Disk setup.

Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

FAT32 (File Allocation Table)

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• Maximum file size: 4GB.
• Maximum volume size: 2TB

NTFS (Windows NT File System)

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X: Install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X (free)
• Some have reported problems using Tuxera (approx 33USD).
• Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard, but is not advisable, due to instability.
• Maximum file size: 16 TB
• Maximum volume size: 256TB

HFS+ (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended) <-- THIS IS THE FORMAT YOU WANT

• Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
• Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner backups of Mac internal hard drive.
• To Read/Write HFS+ from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
• Maximum file size: 8EiB
• Maximum volume size: 8EiB

 

[Surfing@Blacks]

Not sure... if I follow you. I don't see that on Disk Utility.

 

[rdowns]

If you need to format the drive, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

 

[GGJstudios]

Not sure... if I follow you. I don't see that on Disk Utility.

HFS is also referred to as Mac OS Extended:

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[Surfing@Blacks]

Here:

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Gracias