[drumike102]

i recently a bought a 250 gb seagate eide hd from tiger direct with a 3.5in usb enclosure. I put it all together and when i plug it and and it sees it then i try to format it with disk utility it will just freeze up and i have to quit the disk utility. can anyone point me in the right direction. its not the dirve because i can format it on a pc fine and use it. thanks in advance.

[drumike102]

anyone? im really stuck here any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Dr. DDS]

it freezes when you are formating or when you open DiskUtility?

[drumike102]

it freezes when i start to format when i tell it to erase and format as mac format.

[Dr. DDS]

i read this same strange problems when formating with USB.
did you tried formating in fat? (ms dos)

[drumike102]

how would igo about doing that?

[drumike102]

i just tried using the disk utility to format in ms-dos format which is fat i believe and had the same problem.

[Dr. DDS]

you said when you formated on a PC it was ok. After formating on a PC the drive was mounted and appeared in finder? If it is try then to format in HFS.
But as i said before, i read some posts discribing this problems when using USB. I use an USB ? FW400 enclosure and with FW never had a problem.

[drumike102]

i did that and it still did the same thing. it even recognized it and showed up on the desktop. its really weird how can i format it to fat 32 on a pc? can it really be because its usb, the box says its compatibale with os9 and newer.

[kmkkid]

I had the exact same issue with a 300 GB drive I had bought. It seems to be an intel mac USB problem, and apple hasn't fixed it yet. I returned my drive, and plan on purchasing a firewire drive or hope apple fixes the issue soonish. I need more space!!

[drumike102]

well maybe i will just return the enclosure and get a firewire one.

[drumike102]

ya it was def that it was a usb problem i went and got a firewire enclosure and it works perfectly. kinda weird.