hwo to know if disk utility formatted my hex hard drive to windows ntfs

[Sossity]

I have paragon windows ntfs on my mac, & wanted to format an external hard drive to ntfs.

i did it through disk utility, windows nt system was among the options.

I did an erase & writing zeros to the hard drive 1st, then did a format.

when I looked at it in disk utility, there are 2 icons for each drive, & for this drive, one was the factory name or 1TB PI-367, formatted mac os journedled, & then below it is another drive icon for the same drive; movies, (what I named it) formatted windows nt.

i named the drive movies for storing backups of my dvd collections.

did I format it to ntfs? i am a little confused as in how disk utility is showing the drive.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Disk Utility shows an HDD or SSD like this, be it internal or external:

In this image the actual HDD is selected and no format is shown:

In this image one partition (out of three) is selected, which also shows the format (file system) you have used:

Have you checked Finder > select external HDD >> GET INFO >>> Format yet?

 

[Sossity]

no, I will try going in & looking as outlined here, I booted up my virtual machine of windows xp through parallels desktop, & turned on my hard drive, & windows saw it, so from this I think it is formatted to windows, or else my virtual windows machine would not have seen it.