Just purchased a Free Agent 500gb and would like to format it for my G4 OS 10.4. I've gone to Disk utility and the only options are disk repair. How do I format it? I've never formatted a disk on this machine. And am hoping this is a simple process.
Thanks for you help,
anne
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Re: formating to my G4
Hi,
This site provides step by step instruction >
http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=141&navid=54&itemid=23132
Hope this be of some help.
Good luck and kind regards.
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if you still can see files on the Hard disk from MAC, then the reason of being unabe to explore your file from MS windows is that your hard was initialized by MAC with a format that windows cannot read.
move your data from external hard disk to your MAC then format your hard disk from windows OS with FAT32 format .this format is readable on both MAC and WINDOWS
So I would suggest a few things for this issue. First check the format of the drive you are trying to plug in. You can do this on your Mac by using Disk Utility (Applications - Utilities - Disk Utility). Plug in the drive and open Disk Utility and click on the partition. At the bottom of the Disk Utility window it lists the information about the drive. You are specifically interested in the "Format" item. If your drive is formatted Mac OS Extended or some other Mac format you probably cannot use it on the Sony Blue Ray player. Most device look for and are only compatible with Windows type formats. For example, NTFS or FAT32. The best way to test if this is really the problem, or a systemic problem with the BR player would be to pick up a USB jump drive somewhere (they are cheap if you don't have one just laying around.) Format the jump drive to a FAT32 or NTFS file system using Disk Utility. Copy the files you want to view to the jump drive (Be sure to check the file type compatibility chart on the Sony website or in the manual and make sure what you are trying to view matches those types.) Plug that in and see if you are successful. Also there was a few notes on forums that Sony doesn't support actual hard drives on the BR players which would suggest that they only support Jump drives and FAT32 because of the file size limitations it brings. Try this and let me know how it goes. Attached is a picture of my Free Agent drive formatted for Mac in Disk Utility
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Yes.
You should use the Disc Utility in Macintosh >Hard Drive> Applications>Utilities>Disc Utility to format the new externql to Mac OS Extended Journalrd or non-Journaled is fine.
For video applications I prefer non-Journaled.
Select the drive on the left side of the window to highlight it.
Select the Erase tab. (Top of window)
Select VolumeFormat: and Name:
In Secutity options select Zero Out Data, hit Erase (middle of window) and wait for formatting to complete.
Could be an hour or two depending on disc size.
You will need to format the drive to work with you Mac.
1. Open Disk Utility
2. Select Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
3. In the left hand column, click on the drive icon for the Iomega Hard Drive. Make sure you click on the high level icon, not the second level volume icon.
NOTE: For devices with 2 or more hard drives, please review the configuration settings to determine which volume type works best for you.
4. Select the Partition tab.
5. Change Volume Scheme from Current to 1 Partition.
6. Select the format type from the Format drop-down menu.
Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (recommended) or Mac OS Extended.
7. Click on the Options button.
8. Select the type of partition you want to use:
GUID Partition Table - for boot ability on Intel-based Macs
Apple Partition Map - for boot ability on PowerPC-based Macs
Master Boot Record - if you will use the drive on a PC as well as your Mac. Use this option ONLY if you selected PC-DOS as the format type.
CAUTION! In most cases, the computer will fail to format the drive as a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) partition using Master Boot Record. For best results, always choose GUID Partition Table (Intel) or Apple Partition Map (PowerPC).
9. Click OK.
10. Click Apply (10.5-10.6) or Partition (10.4). The drive is ready to use when the format completes.
Go to the applications folder and then the utilities folder and double click on disk utility. Once open select your hard drive from the left hand options. In the right hand side of the disk utility you will see the following headings first aid then erase click on erase. Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the Volume Format and then name the hard drive and then click on the erase button below nad follwo the instructions. Hope this helps
In Disk Utility click on the Partition click on the Current Volume Scheme drop-down menu and select One (1 partition) from the Partition Schemes provided: Click on the options button and chose either the GUID Partition button or the Apple Partition Map button click OK Select other options as desired (e.g., Volume Name Format etc.). Click Apply the Partition Disk screen opens click Partition Time Machine may open asking if you would like to use the volume for backups. Click Cancel to proceed
Lesson No. 1 - Never buy hardware or software from a store at which sales staff think the best way to answer your Mac questions is to convince you to buy a PC.
Lesson No. 2 - Reformat the drive using the Mac Disk Utility included with your MacBook after consulting with a store at which the sales staff know there is more to the computer world than PCs.
If you only intend to use the drive on your Mac, choose the option Mac Extended Journaled when rewriting the drive. There is also an formatting option to use the drive on both PC's and Macs. But I'm not going there.
Actually, the utility that the above commenter states would make you a fortune is called
Disk Management and it is built into both Vista and Windows already.
You are able to partition a hard drive to have both ntfs and fat32
partitions. There is also another freeware called swissknife. Also,
there is an old hp program that is able to format external hard drives
larger than 40gb into fat32 format which is an issue for some. So yes
it is possible. I can tell you that from experience. I own a 1tb
Iomega that I have a 40gb Fat32 partition for my Playstation 3 to read
and the rest is NTFS for file transfer speed with my computer.
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