I have an Iomega external HD 120GB with USB and Firewire. I originally formatted it as MacOS Extended, but then later realized I need it to be Windows XP compatible as well for another project. Iomega's documentation said Fat32 would work. However, my office mate has the same drive (but only USB and 80GB) and it's formatted in Fat32. My computer does not recognize this drive - it says that a device has mounted that contains no volumes readable by the mac. It prompts me to erase it or eject it. It shows up as a device when I look in Apple System Profiler, but doesn't appear on the desktop.
I've seen a lot of posts on this, but all seem to say that Fat32 works in OS X no problem. Any insight on why Fat32 is not working for me here?
THANKS!
(Other background - I contacted Iomega about this problem and they said to reformat the drive choosing Ms-Dos in the Disk utility function. I did this and it royally screwed everything up to where the drive can't be recognized and it freezes everything on my computer if the external drive is plugged in. I contacted Iomega again - they said they'll replace the drive. Also said that their previous agent was wrong... I shouldn't re-format the drive, I should just use the MacDrive utility -though they don't support it so she couldn't actually recommend it to me. Seems like posters to this list also recommend MacDrive. Now that I'll have a new drive, is the general consensus to buy MacDrive and format my HD with MacOS? Or is their hope to format it in way that makes it cross-compatible without buying extra stuff?)
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