Time Machine partitioned my hard drive?

[yourdream]

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.

 

[emt1]

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?

 

[yourdream]

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)

 

[emt1]

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?

 

[yourdream]

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.

 

[emt1]

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.

 

[yourdream]

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?

 

[emt1]

You'd have to reformat the drive with disk utility. You'll lose all of the data on the drive doing this.

 

[yourdream]

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.