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For the Love of God Please Help me Format my firewire HD as FAT32
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: NYNY
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Does anyone know of an OS X utility that will format my firewire drive as FAT32 drive. I need to share it with PCs and I am out of options.
Win2k won't read my MS-DOS formatted drive (which is FAT16).
If I can't share it I'm f'd.
(Last edited by Moderator; Dec 13, 2002 at 04:42 PM.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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hey there... I am in somewhat the same situation... I currently don't have access to a pc with firewire but I would think you could format the drive with a pc as fat32 I will research this further as I just got 1 firewire enclosure and ordered a combo usb2.0 and firewire enclosure...anyway .. let me go look...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Since you have access to a Win 2000 machine, then just format it with that to FAT32. If you can't because the partitions are too big (because Win 2000 formats only NTFS on partitions over 32 GB), then partition the drive first.
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
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Try using erase disk in the disk utility in OS X. It will let you select the wanted format for the disk.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jul 2000
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I've been using my FireWire drives between OS X and Windows XP.
At first I had problems I couldn't figure out why XP would not see them, but I forgot what I had did in XP to correct it (it too complicated and not easy to remembers with all those settings in XP)
Anyway, I had to format the drives as a FAT32 drive, which worked. When I was ready to unmount the drives (I used XP at work) sometimes XP would let me unmount and sometimes it wouldn't, 60% of them time I to had to either restart or shutdown XP in order to get my drive unmounted safely, otherwise OS X said there was something wrong with the drive.
So now, I can connect the drive and disconnect without any problems, but I have installed MacDrive onto XP. The drives are no longer FAT32 drives either.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Well..I went to Best Buy and they took care of it for free..pretty cool of them I thought. Still don't know how they formatted a drive that wasn't showing up in the first place.
Anyway...it seems that the Mac OS disk utility formats ( I think FAT16) it in such a way that any non DOS version of Windows can't see it.
Bottom line..they need to update Disk Utility b/c that was a huge pain in the ass and I know others have had similar problems.
As far as percieved incompatibilities across the two platforms, the fact that I can't just plug my Firewire drive into a PC and have it show up is a problem.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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I like it how Mac users expect to be able to format a drive to FAT32 but Windows can't even read HFS... Just an observation.
Wesley
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I just got my firewire usb combo enclosure today and set it up on my pc running xp... 2 partitions both fat32 I now can connect it to my ibook via fw or usb.. now I still have tghe option of formatting the drive to mac formats... works perfectly 
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