External Hard Drive won't format

[peejack]

Hi guys, I wonder if anyone can help.

I just brought a Western Digital 1TB USB drive for my Mac Pro. Now when I try and format it in Mac OSX journaled it keeps coming up in an error saying it can't be done, It will format as FAT32 but I need it to be Mac OSX formatted. Does anyone know what might be wrong?

here is a picture of the error:

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Cave Man]

You need to click on the drive (and not the partition, which is below and indented) in Disk Utility. That brings up the Partition tab. Click on that to proceed. If this will be a bootable drive on an Intel Mac, be sure to set to GUID partition table with the Options button.

 

[peejack]

You need to click on the drive (and not the partition, which is below and indented) in Disk Utility. That brings up the Partition tab. Click on that to proceed. If this will be a bootable drive on an Intel Mac, be sure to set to GUID partition table with the Options button.

Fantastic mate, thanks so much It worked. Needed to select GUID