Formatting Problems on Additonal Hard Drive

[robotartfashion]

Ok, this may be the wrong forum section for this, but seeing as it's occuring on my MacPro and there are generally more advanced users in here,

I have a 640GB WD Black hard drive in my computer, and that I had accidentally formatted during my creation of a XP boot camp drive (I have another hard drive in the MacPro with this present)

At the time I lost a majority of my media and had to rerip it all (learned my backup lesson there)

So when it was reformatted it was changed from OSX extended journaled to MS-DOS Fat

I then used the drive to store the media on again as I reripped and pulled some from Time Machine.... I kept running into problems where some files would not copy over

So I reformatted a different drive and copied all the media to it, which fixes the other issues, and now I'm trying to reformat the MS-DOS 640 GB drive back to osx extended journaled

Whew....

When I use disk utility I select the drive, and change the volume format from MS-DOS (FAT) to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click Erase

......and then it stops and says "Disk Erase failed Disk erase failed with the error: File system formatter failed"

I tried googling, any ideas?

 

[UltraNEO*]

I managed to do something like this last week, though I was moving a HD from one system to another.

 

[robotartfashion]

that worked! thanks so much!

 

[surflordca]

I managed to do something like this last week, though I was moving a HD from one system to another.

We have some smart users here at MacRumors. That is why I try to be here every day and catch up on my reading 😀😀

 

[119576]

I managed to do something like this last week, though I was moving a HD from one system to another.

This just worked for me after I had the same problem.
Thanks a lot. 🙂

 

[2056]

i was having this exact issue this evening. thank you so much!

 

[bigjash]

Ditto on the good tip! I just plugged in a 2TB Seagate Exchange via USB. It would not allow me to re-format the usual way.

Changed the partition option and VOILA!

Thanks for the help.