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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 Dec 2009 16:15 On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:20:09 +0000, datasmog(a)hotmail.com (ray) wrote: >A friend of mine recently purchased a Verbatim USB/Firewire portable >hard drive. He wants to use it exclusively on WinXP with NTFS. The drive >came formatted for Macs. It shows up in Disk Utility as Mac OS Extended >Journaled with a GUID partition map. >The partion shows as Mac OS Extended. > >How can I reformat this as NTFS? >Windows simply doesn't see the drive, even in disk management in XP. That's not good. Does it show on any other Windows machines? You can repartition and format in XP, no matter what the current format (unless it's a broken FAT/NTFS partition, which can hang Windows' disk-mounting procedure - but it's not, so that's unlikely to be the cause). There's some other issue here. >I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. It should do, here Disk Utility offers NTFS-3G as a format option, and it works fine. (Snow Leopard, MacFUSE 2.1.5, NTFS-3g 2009.4.4, though there's a newer one out now) >Formatting the >partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. How does it not work - can't format, or doesn't show up in Windows still? >Any constructive suggestions please? Sounds to me like the device is dodgy. Have you tried it with both USB and FW? Cheers - Jaimie -- You are standing at the gate to Gehennom. --more-- Unspeakable cruelty and harm lurk down there. --more-- Are you sure you want to go in there? y So be it. You fall down the stairs. -- Nethack 3.31
From: ray on 14 Dec 2009 06:30
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:20:09 +0000, datasmog(a)hotmail.com (ray) wrote: > > >A friend of mine recently purchased a Verbatim USB/Firewire portable > >hard drive. He wants to use it exclusively on WinXP with NTFS. The drive > >came formatted for Macs. It shows up in Disk Utility as Mac OS Extended > >Journaled with a GUID partition map. > >The partion shows as Mac OS Extended. > > > >How can I reformat this as NTFS? > >Windows simply doesn't see the drive, even in disk management in XP. > > That's not good. Does it show on any other Windows machines? No it didn't. I've fixed it now. Downloaded a trial of Paragon NTFS which has done the trick. The drive is now useable in XP. Thanks all for the advice. -- http://www.dream-weaver.com/email.php Web development promotion and seo http://www.spaldingcomputers.co.uk http://www.overseasmovingsolutions.com/ |