OSX 10.6.8
MacBook Pro late 2010
Ok so I've searched and I'm sorry if this has been covered but for now I'm stumped. I've lost 2 formatting options from the drop-down menu in Disk Utility (when you select the format of the partition you're creating)
My macbook pro was a store demo, and was thus pre-installed with OSX snowleopard 10.6.7? I think or 10.6.8. I don't know if I updated it or it self updated, but in anycase, though I could never write to NTFS (I know there's a terminal workaround for specific partitions/volumes possible, and bootcamp if you want windows to do it, but I'm NOT talking about that), I COULD format a volume in Windows NT File System and ExFat and the standard Mac ones and Fat32.
I recently reinstalled OSX on my computer using a replacement DVD from Apple (because the ones that came with my computer were corroded) and I lost this ability. I called Apple to find out why, and after hours of explaination, the answer was, that my computer must have had 3rd party software installed on it.
I do not think I installed such software, I know of no such software (that would add NTFS and ExFat to the dropdown menu un Disk Utility WHILE not allow writing to NTFS), and I cannot find or recall seeing that in my computer.
Answers, thoughts anyone? I'm stumped. Is Apple lying to me?
MacBook Pro late 2010
Ok so I've searched and I'm sorry if this has been covered but for now I'm stumped. I've lost 2 formatting options from the drop-down menu in Disk Utility (when you select the format of the partition you're creating)
My macbook pro was a store demo, and was thus pre-installed with OSX snowleopard 10.6.7? I think or 10.6.8. I don't know if I updated it or it self updated, but in anycase, though I could never write to NTFS (I know there's a terminal workaround for specific partitions/volumes possible, and bootcamp if you want windows to do it, but I'm NOT talking about that), I COULD format a volume in Windows NT File System and ExFat and the standard Mac ones and Fat32.
I recently reinstalled OSX on my computer using a replacement DVD from Apple (because the ones that came with my computer were corroded) and I lost this ability. I called Apple to find out why, and after hours of explaination, the answer was, that my computer must have had 3rd party software installed on it.
I do not think I installed such software, I know of no such software (that would add NTFS and ExFat to the dropdown menu un Disk Utility WHILE not allow writing to NTFS), and I cannot find or recall seeing that in my computer.
Answers, thoughts anyone? I'm stumped. Is Apple lying to me?