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External hard drive needs reformatting

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eyebeaz

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Oct 22, 2006
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I just got a new external hard drive and it is formatted in NTFS (I think or w/e it is) and I need to reformat it to FAT32 so that I can read and write. How do I do this?
 
By the way.. I opened the disk utility and looked at the info on the hard drive. It says that it can't be reformatted for some reason.
 
eyebeaz said:
By the way.. I opened the disk utility and looked at the info on the hard drive. It says that it can't be reformatted for some reason.
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Woah that is indeed strange... are you sure you selected the right drive? Not your computers one.
 
Luis said:
Woah that is indeed strange... are you sure you selected the right drive? Not your computers one.
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Yup positive.. I am guessing there is no way around this? Looks like this bad boy is getting returned.
 
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