[barnardeep]

i have a seagate hard drive that i put into an external enclosure. i can move files back and forth from my pc but i cannot use it for my macbook. i used the pc with the seagate set up program to format the drive. is there anything i can do to use it with my macbook? i have a western digital mybook that work with both computers and does everything fine. does anyone have any clues as to what's going on?

[hookem2oo7]

It may be formatted with an NTFS filesystem. The macbook would see it, but could not write to it. You'll need to back up the data on it and use either the PC or the macbook to format it with FAT32 in order to be able to use it on both systems

[barnardeep]

ok i'll give that a try

[barnardeep]

im using seagate discwizard but for some reason i cannot make the whole drive fat32. i can only do 30 something GB at a time. should i just keep doing this until its filled with several partitions like this?

[hookem2oo7]

nah, thats just a windows limitation. a fat32 partition is able to fill your whole disk, but windows (and apparently your utility) wont allow the creation of such a partition. You can do it in OSX with disk utility if i'm not mistaken, and definitely from the terminal (don't know the exact commands...)

[barnardeep]

how do i get to the disk utility? im not too good with the terminal.

[cruisereg]

Originally Posted by barnardeep

how do i get to the disk utility? im not too good with the terminal.

Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility if you haven't found it already.