I'm dual booting Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP on a Macbook Pro. I have a nice external hard drive that I wish to use just for Windows XP to store some programming projects.
I formatted the hard drive to be Mac OS X Extended under the mistaken impression that Windows would be able to work with it as well. Of course it's now completely invisible to Windows.
I need to reformat this to be NTFS, but I don't know how to do that since it's invisible to Windows and I don't see an option in Mac OS X.
Any ideas?
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1 tbencreighton // Aug 1, 2008
The external drive doesn't show up in the "My Computer" window, correct? It should show up under the Disk Management tool. If you go to Start and right click on My Computer and select Manage, it will bring up the Computer Management window. Then click on Disk management on the left side of the window. All of the physical storage devices should show up including the external drive.
From there, you can right click on "unknown partition," or whatever it will say, and delete it. Then you can make a new NTFS partition in its place. Just remember that you'll lose all your data.
2 Bart W // Aug 1, 2008
You could use TransMac to access a Mac format disk from a Windows PC. http://www.asy.com
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