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From: ray on 13 Dec 2009 12:20 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. I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. Formatting the partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. Any constructive suggestions please? -- http://www.dream-weaver.com/email.php Web development promotion and seo http://www.spaldingcomputers.co.uk http://www.overseasmovingsolutions.com/
From: Chris Ridd on 13 Dec 2009 12:28 On 2009-12-13 17:20:09 +0000, ray said: > 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. > I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. Formatting the > partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. > > Any constructive suggestions please? Try a more old fashioned partitioning scheme? -- Chris
From: SteveH on 13 Dec 2009 12:39 ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> 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. > I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. Formatting the > partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. > > Any constructive suggestions please? Sounds like XP isn't loading the drivers it needs to see the drive controller. -- SteveH
From: Woody on 13 Dec 2009 13:03 ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> 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. > I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. Formatting the > partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. Reformat as a fat disk in disk utility with a fat partition type, then format it in disk management in XP. It is very odd that Disk Manager in XP doesn't see it though - is it working ok on the mac? -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Duncan Kennedy on 13 Dec 2009 15:44
In message <1jaoc52.kova1l18hih55N%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> writes >ray <datasmog(a)hotmail.com> 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. >> I tried ntfs - 3g but it repeatedly fails to do anything. Formatting the >> partition to FAT 32 doesn't work either. > >Reformat as a fat disk in disk utility with a fat partition type, then >format it in disk management in XP. > >It is very odd that Disk Manager in XP doesn't see it though - is it >working ok on the mac? > I've been through a similar list of strange happenings while trying to convert from XP and Vista to Mac. Installed Paragon NTFS for Mac on the Mac Mini and that was fine - and it comes with a utility that lets you format to anything you're likely to want. Then I added a MacBook Pro and wanted to use a spare Firewire / USB2 Freecom drive for backup, using Firewire. Wrong choice - the Freecom drive just doesn't like Mac Firewire (I gather there are known Firewire drives that are problems on the Mac) . OK on USB2 and managed to format to Mac Extended and Journalised it on the Mac Mini as I haven't got Paragon on the MBP yet. I guess Paragon would do anything you want with its Mac disk utility - and I got some brilliant support when I asked for help with an Apple purchased version which refused to accept the boxed serial number. (But the Freecom is still not seen under Firewire by either Mac - using a 800/400 cable.) -- Duncan K Downtown Dalgety Bay |