ok I've hunted around to see if this problem is already documented, the problem is its longwinded to explain so i'm posting a new thread hoping someone will say 'you bafoon, this has been answered here' - If this is the case i'm terribly sorry!
I originally had my Mac pro bootcamped with OSX and XP on the same drive (I was naive and poor!). obviously I ran out of space so decided to get a big 500gb Seagate. Unfortunately I plugged it in and started moving my music/films/games onto it from within XP. This worked fine. The problem now is that I wish to wipe this drive and start it afresh, but when I open disk utility it tells me the drive is formatted in a windows way - but that the drive has an error and refuses to let me do anything to it (erase, repair, mount... anything). Plugging the drive into a friends XP machine shows there is absolutely nothing wrong with the drive. I can only deduce that Because the drive was originally formatted in XP, OSX wont play ball!
sorry if that was confusing! To summarise, I have a drive that Disk utility says is screwed, but i know it isnt. I think its saying its screwed because of the windows formatting. How can I completely remove any traces of XP's dirty fingers and make OSX take the drive?
ta
I originally had my Mac pro bootcamped with OSX and XP on the same drive (I was naive and poor!). obviously I ran out of space so decided to get a big 500gb Seagate. Unfortunately I plugged it in and started moving my music/films/games onto it from within XP. This worked fine. The problem now is that I wish to wipe this drive and start it afresh, but when I open disk utility it tells me the drive is formatted in a windows way - but that the drive has an error and refuses to let me do anything to it (erase, repair, mount... anything). Plugging the drive into a friends XP machine shows there is absolutely nothing wrong with the drive. I can only deduce that Because the drive was originally formatted in XP, OSX wont play ball!
sorry if that was confusing! To summarise, I have a drive that Disk utility says is screwed, but i know it isnt. I think its saying its screwed because of the windows formatting. How can I completely remove any traces of XP's dirty fingers and make OSX take the drive?
ta