My Seagate FreeAgent is currently formatted in NTFS, allowing only Mac OS X to read the files, rendering transfers useless. I noticed under the Disk Utility, there is an option to format drives including my MBP's HD and my 2 other external HD connected. Is it possible to reformat only a portion of my FreeAgent, which is currently all NTFS, to FAT32? Or do I have to reformat the entire drive into FAT32?
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You would have to repartition the drive to have part of the external NTFS and part FAT32. That FreeAgent drive probably only has one partition on it (correct me if I'm wrong) so the format option is an all or nothing deal.
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stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?
yes you should be able to partition it.
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I also have this problem but I deleted everything off my external hard drive when I was reformatting my computer. Now the external hard drive isn't visible when I go to My Computer. Any suggestions on fixing this?
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Formatting External HD
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by knp, Aug 17, 2007.