DJMastaWes said:
Connect your firewire drive to your moms windows PC. Open my computer right click the firewire drive and click format. Select FAT 32 in the file system and click ok.
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Connect your firewire drive to your moms windows PC. Open my computer right click the firewire drive and click format. Select FAT 32 in the file system and click ok.
That's the thing, the computer itself recognizes it, but it's not in "My computer".tipdrill407 said:
On the Win box open win explorer (file manager) and in the left hand pane you should see a list of drives. Locate the maxtor drive and right click on it. A box will pop, now left click format. Another box will pop up, choose fat32 and click on format.
Bump. Nothing I could do on Windows or mac worked. The Harddrive is being read on Both OSs but can't be formatted. Is there ANY other way to do this? I can't return the Harddrive becuase the warrenty is over. I'm trying to formate it again in Disk Utility but i'm just getting the pin wheel. So can anyone think of anything? Is there a way to format it so it just works for mac? SOMETHING!?!?
you can try using the disk manager in windows if it won't mount into My Computer, using the run command type: compmgmt.msc Then use the disk management tool on the left to see your drive and format it if possible...
I'm not quite clear on whether this is one of the things you tried before and didn't work, but one thing you might see if you can do is the following:
Connect the drive, open Disk Utility, and click on the drive hardware in the lefthand pane (not any volume(s), but the hardware--usually a serial number or some such)
Click the Partition tab to the right.
Under "Volume Scheme" select "1 Partition". Pick anything under the "Format" popup--FAT32 if it's an option. If it's not, don't worry.
Click the "Options" button at the botom and select "Master Boot Record".
Click the "Partition" button at lower right, okay whatever it asks you, and pray that works. It shouldn't take very long, but give it a while--it can appear frozen even when it's not.
Finally, if FAT32 wasn't an option in the Format popup for some reason, once it's done you can use the "Erase" tab to wipe the partiton that now shows up indented under the hardware in the righthand pane. Don't bother with the Erase Free Space or Security options, though--that just takes forever.
Connect the drive, open Disk Utility, and click on the drive hardware in the lefthand pane (not any volume(s), but the hardware--usually a serial number or some such)
Click the Partition tab to the right.
Under "Volume Scheme" select "1 Partition". Pick anything under the "Format" popup--FAT32 if it's an option. If it's not, don't worry.
Click the "Options" button at the botom and select "Master Boot Record".
Click the "Partition" button at lower right, okay whatever it asks you, and pray that works. It shouldn't take very long, but give it a while--it can appear frozen even when it's not.
Finally, if FAT32 wasn't an option in the Format popup for some reason, once it's done you can use the "Erase" tab to wipe the partiton that now shows up indented under the hardware in the righthand pane. Don't bother with the Erase Free Space or Security options, though--that just takes forever.
I haven't tried it with those options. I'm trying it now. But on the left, the only HD related item is "93.4 GB Maxtor OneTou...Makosuke said:
Anyway right now disk utility "appears" to be frozen.
Okay, I give up. I've done everything, and all that happens in disk utility is it becomes frozen.
Could be an OS issue, but it sounds to me like your drive is flaking out. If it's still under warranty, I'd call Maxtor.
Actually, come to think of it, there's an easy way to rule out your OS install--if you boot from the OS install discs, you can get to disk utility from the menus. If you do this procedure from there and it still stalls, then the drive is definitely bum.
Actually, come to think of it, there's an easy way to rule out your OS install--if you boot from the OS install discs, you can get to disk utility from the menus. If you do this procedure from there and it still stalls, then the drive is definitely bum.
Is it possible to create a new partition on the drive using Mac when there's already date saved on teh HD previously with Windows? I mean without erasing the data of course! I don't want to buy a new external HD to use for the Macbook only when my current has plenty of space.
EDIT: Actually my HD is Maxtor OneTouch III (not II) but I'm assuming it's the same idea.
EDIT: Actually my HD is Maxtor OneTouch III (not II) but I'm assuming it's the same idea.