On another forum, I was told that maybe the harddrive had something called NTFS which Mac can't write to. Since you say that MS-Dos is FAT32 and I keep reading that FAT32 is read/writable from a Mac, does anyone know why I couldn't write to it? I got error messages when I tried to write to it.
My harddrive was formatted in MS-Dos, however my Macbook couldn't do anything with it. I hope that someone might be able to answer my question, since it's related. That new entry is the name to use in the newfs_msdos command. You will see an additional entry in the listing after you have plugged the drive in vs. That last name (/dev/rdisk2) can be determined by issuing the command:īefore and after plugging in the drive. Note that this command may take a minute or two to execute, and provides no feedback while it is doing it's job. Newfs_msdos -V volume_name -F 32 /dev/rdisk2
The magic command, lest the above URL should disappear in the future: I find it ironic that I had to use my Mac to format a drive for use in Windows - Windows wouldn't allow me to accomplish this feat by itself! Windows is SO helpful, isn't it? :dummy: This has worked like a champ, and I thought I would pass it on to this community, lest it help anyone else wondering about this problem.Ī bit obscure, but it worked very well. Not so helpful after all!Ī little Googling later, I came up on this gem, which details the Terminal comands needed to reformat a disk with FAT32. To my great surprise, there was no option for FAT32, Windows, or any other formats except variations of HFS and Unix format. I ejected it, started Disk Utility and selected Erase.
The drive immediately showed up on my desktop (thank you Apple!). The drive didn't show up in My Computer, nor anywhere else except the Safely Eject Hardware item in the system tray.Īfter a moment of head scratching, I realized what had to be wrong and plugged the drive into my Mac, thinking to reformat it to FAT32 on the Mac, which is MUCH more helpful generally. Windows beeped at me, indicating that it recognized that I had plugged something in (Windows is SO helpful, isn't it? ) but that was all. I took out my trusty old Buslink 80 GB USB2.0 drive and plugged it into my PC, totally forgetting that I had reformatted that drive to HFS+ (the Mac disk format). This morning I decided to backup my work PC (Windows), which I haven't done for a long time.
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