While this may cost me, in the long run I think it is the only safe thing to do. I guess I will have to break down and purchase a second USB drive for the Mac.
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Since I have three Window boxes that depend on this backup drive and only one Mac machine I opted to reconfigure the drive with NTFS filesystem. When I used Windows "Drive Manager" it should the drive was not configured yet. Guess what, Windows did not recognize the drive. I then unmounted the drive from the Mac and mounted it on the WIndows machine. At this time, I was asked if I wanted to use this drive with "Time Machine". I first created two partitions and then realized that after it was formated in HFS, I could change it to FAT32, so what I did was remove both partitions and created one large partition which was HFS which I later converted to FAT32.
The mac recognized the drive at this point. I then mounted the drive on the Mac and went to the "Disk Utility". Then I removed the partition off the USB drive. First I mounted on the Windows box and backed up all of the data to an internal drive. Well I have experimented with the USB drive. All I see there is the DVD drive and the the original HD.Īm I to understand that I need to remove all partitions from the external drive (USB2.0/Firewire) then plug it into the mac at which point I can use the disk utility to create a partition to be used with the mac and then plug external drive to Window box to create a new partition to be formated in NTFS? I looked at the "Applications/Utilities" and started the "Disk Utility". I plugged the external drive via the Firewire port and looked at the "Console" window for any message regarding a newly added drive. The first partition is formated for NTFS, and the second partition has not been formated in anyway shape or form.
I then powered up the USB2.0/Firewire external drive. I did not find any command that jumped out at me that would create a filesystem. I found the "fdisk" command and it does what I would expect it to do. I opened up a terminal session and poked around looking for "fdisk" and "makefs".
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