i have a 100gb hard disk in NTFS format i want to convert it to FAT32 and/or ude it on my Mac?
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Use Disk Utility in your Utilities folder to reformat it.\n\nOpen Disk Utility\nHighlight your volume in the sidebar\nclick the Erase tab\nchoose "MS-DOS" for format\nclick Erase\n\nDisk Utility will automatically choose FAT-32 or FAT-16, depending on your disk size.  Your 100 Gig disk will be formatted in FAT-32 format.
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Try using the FORMAT command. The Syntax may vary depending on your version of Windows.\n\nIt should be: FORMAT X: /FS:FAT\n\nWhere X: is the drive letter assigned to your card.
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You need to reformat the external hard drive with your Mac computer to be writeable by a Mac. Right now, it's treating it like a CD, rather than a disk drive.\n\nNote, if you reformat the hard drive, you will lose any data saved on it! Proceed with caution!
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Yes, you can read info on a NTFS formatted external HD using Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4.  You cannot copy or save any new data to the drive from the Mac. You will also note that Mac OS X is much more sensative to errors on the drive so sometimes the drive will mount and work fine in Windows but not on the Mac. If you repair the drive with a good disk utility or reformat the drive, it will loose all its errors and work fine on the Mac.\n\nWhy do you want to use NTFS? Can't you just use an external FAT32 formatted HD? Then you can read or write data with any version of Mac OS X. Happy days!
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You can use the Microsoft Windows XP Setup program or the Fdisk and Format tools to partition and format System and startup partitions.\nBefore you install your operating system, you must first create a primary partition on the hard disk (disk 1) on your computer, and then format a file system on that partition. The Fdisk tool is an MS-DOS-based tool that you can use to prepare (partition) a hard disk. You can use the Fdisk tool to create, change, delete, or display current partitions on the hard disk, and then each allocated space on the hard disk (primary partition, extended partition, or logical drive) is assigned a drive letter. Disk 1 may contain one extended partition, and a second hard disk may contain a primary or extended partition. An extended partition may contain one or more logical MS-DOS drives. \n\nAfter you use the Fdisk tool to partition your hard disk, use the Format tool to format those partitions with a file system. The file system File Allocation Table (FAT) allows the hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), and Windows 2000 support the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. When you run the Fdisk tool on a hard disk that is larger than 512 megabytes (MB), you are prompted to choose one of the following file systems: • FAT16: This file system has a maximum of 2 gigabytes (GB) for each allocated space or drive letter. For example, if you use the FAT16 file system and have a 6-GB hard disk, you can have three drive letters (C, D, and E), each with 2 GB of allocated space.\nFAT32: This file system supports drives that are up to 2 terabytes in size and stores files on smaller sections of the hard disk than the FAT16 file system does. This results in more free space on the hard disk. The FAT32 file system does not support drives that are smaller than 512 MB\nWhen you run the fdisk and format commands, the Master Boot Record (MBR) and file allocation tables are created. The MBR and file allocation tables store the necessary disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data\n\nAfter you create the partitions, you must format the partitions: 1. Restart your computer with the Startup disk in the floppy disk drive. \n\nNOTE: If you are using a Windows 95 Startup disk, a command prompt is displayed and you can skip to step 2. If you are using a Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Me Startup disk, select the Start computer without CD-ROM support menu option when the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed. \n2. When a command prompt is displayed, type format c: /s, and then press ENTER. This command transfers the system files and should only be used when you format drive C (or your "active" drive). For all other partitions, type format drive: (where drive is the letter of the partition that you want to format). \n\nNOTE: If you receive a "Bad command" or "Bad file name" error message, you may need to extract the Format.com tool to your boot disk. To do this, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER: \nextract ebd.cab format.com\nAfter the Format.com tool is extracted to your boot disk, type format c: /s t a command prompt to format your active partition, or type format drive: if you want to format a partition that is not your active partition. \n3. When you successfully run the Format.com tool, you receive the following message:\nWARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! \nProceed with Format?  \n4. Press Y, and then press ENTER to format drive C. \n5. After the format procedure is finished, you receive the following message: \nVolume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? \nNOTE: This is an optional feature that you can use to type a name for the drive. You can either type an 11-character name for the drive, or you can leave it blank by pressing ENTER. \n\nIf you want to add a second hard disk (s
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Place in win xp CD and choose fdisk
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Format the HDD with the NTFS format
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Plug in memory stick.\nGo to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management. You should be able to see it in the bottom right hand side. Right click inside the area which is your memory stick & choose format. If it does not give you this option but it has an option to create partition then choose that & when done right click inside the area again & choose format (make it fat file system).
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In NTFS (new technology file system) you get more options like encrypting data and more and you can have unlimited hard drive unlimited partitions and in FAT you don't have any more options and you cannot have hard drive more than 108 GB.\n                                             hope it helps
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You can use a linux live CD to format almost any partition scheme you want (live meaning that the OS runs off of a CD), here is one I use regularly, it has saved my computer/data several times, you will need a CD burner, and burning software that can burn .ISO disc image files (like NERO, or Record Now!):\nhttp://slax.linux-live.org/\n\nIf you want to completely wipe/zero out your hard drive, you can use this software (note that your hardrive will be completely erased, and all data on it will be unrecoverable, even by the best professionals):\nhttp://dban.sourceforge.net/\n\n............AND\ngojurokusai, I know what you are talking about, what it is saying, is that if you have formated a drive as NTFS, you cannot change it back to FAT32 without loosing data, however, you can "upgrade" your EXISTING FAT32 to NTFS without loosing any data, not to say that you cannot completely erase/reformat a NTFS partition, however you will loose all data... But with the proper tools, you can now go back to FAT32 from NTFS...\n\nWhich brings up a good point, if your willing to cough up about 40-60$, you can easily do about anything, with any kind of partition you can imagine, this is probably the easiest route to go, The utility is "Partition Magic", and it is made by "Norton/Symantec". Here is a link to the product:\nhttp://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html\n\n..and if that don't help you, PRAY!\n\nBest of Luck!
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yes, the harddrive for pc's and macs are the same, you just have to format them properly for the machine.
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Nope.  FAT32 can be made into NTFS (on Windows XP) but NTFS cannot be reverted back to FAT32.
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FAT [ File Allocation Table ] is the storage format used on Windows 3.X, FAT32 is Windows 9.X. \n\nFAT being 16bit and FAT32 32bit obviously. \n\nFAT had limitations in that it could only handle had drives partitioned into 2Gb sectors and file names of up to 11 characters [ including the extension ]. \n\nFAT32 saw this improve with alowing file names of up to 255 characters and much larger disk paritions [ not sure of the exact size but I know its big ]. \n\nNTFS [ New Technology File System ] was intorduced with the NT operating systems [ like 2000, ME, XP ] and is basicaly a more efficiant version of FAT32. It also allows large contigous files and better features. \n\nNTFS files cannot be read on a system using an O/S older than NT. A NT O/S is not supposed to be able to read or locate files on a FAT storage device but there is a driver that can be downloaded that give NT the ability to do this.
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If you have a floopy drive you can format it for a bootable disk. Go to your "my computer" and right click on the floppy drive and click on format. After that you can choose how to format it. Hope this helps. Thanks. Rock.
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It's not really a problem, this is often done when you want to have a machine dual boot, lets say... windows xp, and windows 98. Xp uses ntfs, and 98 uses Fat32.
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agreed, you likely have formatted it using FAT file system.\n\nif you have xp you should 'convert' your hard drive to NTFS.
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Yes u can have both Hard disk with Fat32 & NTFS as Windows XP supports for both file systems.\n\nBut I recommend to convert ur primary drive to NTFS. Its easy to convert Fat32 to NTFS for better performance & security of ur HDD.\n\nGoto command prompt & type\n>convert <volume label> /fs:ntfs /v\n\nConverts FAT volumes to NTFS.\nCONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]\n  volume      Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),\n              mount point, or volume name.\n  /FS:NTFS    Specifies that the volume is to be converted to NTFS.\n  /V          Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.\n  /CvtArea:filename Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory to be the place holder for NTFS system files.\n  /NoSecurity Specifies the converted files and directories security settings to be accessible by everyone.\n  /X          Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.\n              All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid.\n\nU can get help by typing\n>Convert /?\nGood Luck....