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How To Format an External Hard drive HFS+ and NTFS
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I have searched high and low for the answer to this question. I have tried many many manyyyyy times to accomplish this on my own and everytime something just doenst work out!
So my question is how do I format my Western Digital external hard drive for 305gb HFS+ (mac use) and 160 NTFS(or fat32) for my Windows computer?
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I have tried to format and partition it first on a Windows computer (using both Partition Magic and the Windows Disk Manager) and then take it to my Mac, but it doesnt say they are 2 different disks, rather just 2 volumes, therefore i cant format each one individually.
I have also tried to format using DIsk Utility and then take it to my Pc. It reads that there is a formated drive in My Computer but when i go to Partition Magic or Disk manager it reads as the entire drive is "Unallocated"
AND FINALLY...the closest i've come to completing this task is..when i went to My Computer->Manager and all that jazz, It showed up as 160gb and 305gb, so that is a step further than before. Now i just want to simply format that 160gb "Unallocated" area NTFS. But when a right click on that, go to New Partition, and go thru all the steps with that, when i'm finally ready to format it(and hit Format)...it says "The requested operation cannot be completed because the media is write-protected" (thats of course with my Pc) so i assume it is a matter of "un-write-protecting" the drive?
If anyone can help me out at all let me know! Thanks!
(using Windows XP and Mac Leopard (or could use Tiger if need be))
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Try using your Mac's Disk Utility to make one HFS+, one FAT32. Then use your Windows machine to make the FAT32 >> NTFS.
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i've tried that but i am unable to format one with HFS+ and the other Fat32. When i go to the partition tab it doesnt give me a FAT32 option, just HFS formats and "free space"
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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wow thats actually probably my best bet at this point! also found something called MacFuse which is similar and free!
but if anyone can still answer my question that'd be great! i'd still like to just have 2 separate partitions!
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MacFuse is free and has an NTFS read/write module.
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haha read the post above you cgc!
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Originally Posted by jaimem 
i've tried that but i am unable to format one with HFS+ and the other Fat32. When i go to the partition tab it doesnt give me a FAT32 option, just HFS formats and "free space"
Make sure you're clicking the +/- button in Disk Utility's partition tab to add a new partition, then drag the slide/border bar to the size you want.
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Originally Posted by jaimem
haha read the post above you cgc!
Crap...how'd I miss that? 
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