How to get external to Fat32?

[HE15MAN]

I have a 300gb external sitting around that is NTFS. Am I stuck ? I cannot find a way to get it to Fat32.

Thanks!

 

[spinnerlys]

If you don't mind formatting it, connect the HDD, open Disk Utility (Spotlight will find it for you) and format (ERASE) it with the MS-DOS Filesystem, which is Apple's name for FAT32.


Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility

Guide on how to use Disk Utility from the restore / installation DVD.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive

 

[HE15MAN]

If you don't mind formatting it, connect the HDD, open Disk Utility (Spotlight will find it for you) and format (ERASE) it with the MS-DOS Filesystem, which is Apple's name for FAT32.


Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility

Guide on how to use Disk Utility from the restore / installation DVD.

Thank you!