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Time Machine partitioned my hard drive?
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I wanted to backup Leopard using Time Machine and it deleted my NTFS partition and created a HFS+ partition instead. I was wondering if I could reformat it back to NTFS or another partition type later on.
Uh... Macs can't write to NTFS partitions so I highly doubt you ever had an NTFS partition. HFS+ is usually the best format to have you hard drive on. What were you trying to back up?
Uh... Macs can't write to NTFS partitions so I highly doubt you ever had an NTFS partition. HFS+ is usually the best format to have you hard drive on. What were you trying to back up?
I had a NTFS partition before because I was using Windows. But then now when I plug my hard drive into my Mac it shows as HFS+ instead NTFS. And I was trying to back up the whole operating system. (Leopard)
Leopard will not install on an NTFS partition so you never had Leopard on that drive unless it was reformatted to a HFS+ prior to installation.
So it's HFS+ now. What's the problem?
I want to know if it is possible to switch back to NTFS or another format if I use my hard drive with Windows or Windows and Mac.
If you have to use both, FAT32 would work, but I think that using something like a USB flash drive or a network for file transfers would be a far better idea.
I see. Well, do you know how to switch to FAT32 then?
You'd have to reformat the drive with disk utility. You'll lose all of the data on the drive doing this.
All right. Thank you for your help.
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