I have a bunch of data on a Seagate external HD from my pc running windows xp professional.
I want to move my multimedia stuff from my macbook to the external hard drive. Because my macbook is 1st generation, the hard drive is a puny 60 GB and is getting full.
However since the files on the hard drive are from windows xp and are in the NTFS file format, is there anyway I can overwrite that or erase that and re-use the hard drive in the Mac format?
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Yeah, when you connect the drive, go to your Disc Utility and you can reformat it.
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so, go to disk utility, and click on convert?
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One of the few pieces of software I was willing to spend money on for OS X is Paragon NTFS On OS X. It works perfectly and is every bit as fast writing to NTFS as Windows is.
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Yea, just to reiterate for others reading the thread - reformatting a drive erases ALL data on it.
But yes, to reformat a drive, just go to Disk Utility, and there should be a Format option in there (not in Mac OS right now so don't know the exact path, but it should be pretty easy to find). You can make it HFS+ (the format for Mac OS), or, if you want Windows computers to be able to read/write to the drive as well, make it FAT32. Note, though, that FAT32 formatted drives can only have files up to 4 GB in size. -
I am currently in OSX disk utility, there's 5 options:
First aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, and Restore.
I don't see a Restore to mac file system option.
where should i go?
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external harddrive questions
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Roger Dodger, Mar 24, 2008.