jnathanson;592534 Wrote: > So... When using a Mac to format a hard drive exclusively for use with a > Touch, what format should I tell the Mac's Disc utility to use to > maximize the chance that things will work?
My brother who is an experienced MAC fanboy asked me to partition his external drive with my Linux laptop, so it does not look like a trivial task. The issue you have is not the formatting, but the disk partitioning. Please don't confuse the two. As far as I am aware, the MAC tend create non standard partitions that give grief to other OS, whereas formating of FAT and FAT32 filesystems by the MAC has to be standard. Once I had partitioned the drive (which is very quick), my brother was able to format the partitions I had created to FAT32 and NTFS with his MAC without any troubles. Moreover, the initial issue you have looks like the drive playing tricks with the partition table. I hope you can find a friend with a Win32 or Linux box that can wipe out those hidden partitions. The alternative is to go for one of the recommended hard drive which will make your life much simpler. A simple search on the forums will reveal quite a lot of information, my favorite thread is still : http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81987 Regards, Jean -- jean2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jean2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=83630 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
