Technical problems - hard drive

[MWCren]

I can't use FDISK because it doesn't exist, and Windows disk management only formats in NTFS.

SOMEONE HELP ME!!

You might try to find an old win98 or winME boot disk that has FDisk on it That should do the trick in FAT32 for you. I'm guessing you open a winXP dos window (CMD) and then switch to the location and then run FDisk like the old days.

[Rimmates.com]

Here's what I have so far. I split the drive in half and partitioned 119GB with FAT32.

Windows does not even recognize the other drive space, so it may as well just be a 119GB drive. I think I will try to format the rest of the space in Mac journaling fs for my video content.

Thanks gaybucks_chip for the heads up on FAT's 2GB file limit. I'll use FAT for my photos since there will be a lot of them, and the Mac partition for video files.

If this fails to fly, then I will just give up and format the whole thing in Mac and buy that Mac opener program.

[gaybucks_chip]

I am pretty sure PartitionMagic will format partitions to FAT32 or NTFS (user selectable) and pretty much all hard drives come with a version of OnTrack's DiskManager software (usually crippled to only work with the manufacturer's specific brand of drives)

I have an old generic version of DiskManager that came with a Hitachi drive right after they bought IBM's drive business and before they got around to getting a custom crippled version. With the generic one, I can format, partition, and label any brand of drive in about 5 minutes (including format time) I bet if you dig around on Ebay or perhaps even check at OnTrack.com's site, you might be able to find a copy.