Help needed on using my newly purchased My Book 1TB with my MBP

[enochpeng]

I just bought a 1TB My Book HD for backing up my video clips.
It was formatted as FAT which doesn't let me putting my rather large video files onto it. (5-15GB) I tried to reformatted the drive using Disk Utility to Mac OS Extended Journaled, but it always fails.

What do I do now?

Thanks so much for any input or tips

 

[StuBeck]

What does it say when it fails? You may have to select the drive (not the partition below it) and select the partition tab. Then select 1 partition from the menu (will say "Current partition") and then select advanced at the bottom to format it as GUID.

 

[enochpeng]

The problem seems to be solved. Thanks sooooo much for your tip.