Help Please! Need Advice on installing Western Digital External HD

[Tmang]

Hello,
I am extremely new to the Mac World and I recently got a used Power PC G5 with a 1.9 GHz; 1GB DD2 SDRAM (if that means anything). Additionally, I picked up a Western Digital 750 GB external HD which had been used with a PC XP configuration.
My Mac OSX (Ver. 10.4.11) won't read the Western Digital (WD); so I'm trying to "reformat" it to accept Mac video for editing purposes (storing completed iMovie projects right now and raw video footage); I ran across these options in the Utility; "Mirror Raid"; "Striped Raid" or "Concatenated Disk Set". Which should I chose and what can I do to install this WD to fit my needs? Can anyone out there help me or direct me to some help? Thanks,
Larry
If anyone has ANY answers (before I click and screw up my external HD or my MAC--PLEASE e-mail me at "mail_larrym1@yahoo.com". I will be most appreciative. Take care.

 

[KeithPratt]

I ran across these options in the Utility; "Mirror Raid"; "Striped Raid" or "Concatenated Disk Set". Which should I chose

None. These are RAID options, which you don't want from your description. You simply want to reformat it to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' and you should be set.

 

[ChrisA]

If anyone has ANY answers (before I click and screw up my external HD or my MAC--PLEASE e-mail me at "mail_larrym1@yahoo.com". I will be most appreciative. Take care.

(1) There is no way you can damage the disk. Anything you can do with Disk Utility can be un-done with Disk Utility. Disk Utility can erase data from a disk but it can'r hard the drive itself

(2) Don't ask for e-mail replies, no one later doing a search will be able to find the answer as it won't be here.

Now the answer. Just format the drive a HFS+ Journaled. That's it. You don't need any of those raid options and yu cn't use them with just a single drive. Raid is a way to combine multiple drives.