Reformatting a Mac drive for XP...HOW if XP can't see it???
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Reformatting a Mac drive for XP...HOW if XP can't see it???
Subject says it all!
About a week ago one of my clients handed me a freshly wiped Lacie firewire drive that was Mac formatted so we could have all the 2" 24-track takes dumped into a DAW and walk away with files.
We left the studio with 'em on my drive but I need to get 'em on HIS drive and my XP machine isn't really recognizing his Mac drive, so I gotta reformat it I guess...
But how???
The drive isn't showing up on any of the drive lists in "my computer" or any of the programs, BUT...it IS showing up in the firewire port with the same kind of recognition that say, a USB flash drive gets. I can "stop" it ('ya with me?) but I can't do any work with that stoopid Mac drive.
At least my PC drive shows up on his Mac! Buwhahahahahaha!
I've already asked my client for advice...he's got none.
HELP!
Much thanks in advance!
About a week ago one of my clients handed me a freshly wiped Lacie firewire drive that was Mac formatted so we could have all the 2" 24-track takes dumped into a DAW and walk away with files.
We left the studio with 'em on my drive but I need to get 'em on HIS drive and my XP machine isn't really recognizing his Mac drive, so I gotta reformat it I guess...
But how???
The drive isn't showing up on any of the drive lists in "my computer" or any of the programs, BUT...it IS showing up in the firewire port with the same kind of recognition that say, a USB flash drive gets. I can "stop" it ('ya with me?) but I can't do any work with that stoopid Mac drive.
At least my PC drive shows up on his Mac! Buwhahahahahaha!
I've already asked my client for advice...he's got none.
HELP!
Much thanks in advance!
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If you don't want to reformat it, get a copy of MacDrive. That will let you use Mac formatted disks on a PC.
If you do decide to reformat the disk in Windows, make sure to use FAT instead of NTFS. Macs can read NTFS, but they can't write to it.
If you do decide to reformat the disk in Windows, make sure to use FAT instead of NTFS. Macs can read NTFS, but they can't write to it.
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Ooooo.digitaldrummer wrote:does it show up in Administrative Tools-->Computer Managment-->Disk management?
I hadn't thought of that...I'll have to see...
But yah, no...I need this drive to show up on a PC without headaches or workarounds like MacDrive if at all possible. The singer/B3 player is on the Mac but both me and the guitar player who's doing comps (at his house) are on PC DAW's.
Reformatting isn't a problem. That's what I wanna do!!!
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Thanks for the advice so far...
I was mucking around in disk management and figured out how to format the drive so NOW Windows can see it!
But!
(...man do I ever hate buts...)
Apparently the only format option is NTFS...FAT32 isn't on the dropdown menu. So now I'm wondering how to format the drive to be FAT32 and not NTFS.
And yeah...the raw multi-tracks have already been backed up to DVD plus we still have 'em all scattered out across several reels of 2" tape at 15ips. The guitar player wants to comp takes together on his PC & singer/B3 guy needs to be able to connect the stuff to his Mac for overdubs when the comps are done, and I get to keep track of it all & mix. So the drive thing is pretty paramount to being able to being able to have forward momentum right now...
I was mucking around in disk management and figured out how to format the drive so NOW Windows can see it!
But!
(...man do I ever hate buts...)
Apparently the only format option is NTFS...FAT32 isn't on the dropdown menu. So now I'm wondering how to format the drive to be FAT32 and not NTFS.
And yeah...the raw multi-tracks have already been backed up to DVD plus we still have 'em all scattered out across several reels of 2" tape at 15ips. The guitar player wants to comp takes together on his PC & singer/B3 guy needs to be able to connect the stuff to his Mac for overdubs when the comps are done, and I get to keep track of it all & mix. So the drive thing is pretty paramount to being able to being able to have forward momentum right now...
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You probably have to delete the existing unknown partition first. Read this for more info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525/
There's a step-by-step guide in there on creating and formatting new partitions in WinXP.
EDIT: No, this doesn't work either. I just tried it with my 200GB removable drive. It only lets me choose NTFS. I'm looking for a workaround now.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525/
There's a step-by-step guide in there on creating and formatting new partitions in WinXP.
EDIT: No, this doesn't work either. I just tried it with my 200GB removable drive. It only lets me choose NTFS. I'm looking for a workaround now.
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Huh!John Jeffers wrote:Never mind, WinXP won't let you format anything bigger than 32GB as FAT32. You'll need a 3rd party partition manager (Partition Magic, for example), or maybe a Win98/ME boot disk to format it as FAT32. You learn something new every day.
Damn.
So maybe I should try something like a Maxtor install disc that I got with another drive?
I guess I'll figure it out from here on my own...
Thanks everybody!
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I haven't tried it in awhile but I'm pretty sure you can format a FAT32 volume greater than 32GB. Delete the partition, make sure you create a primary partition. then format. If you are still limited, you may need to change the allocation unit size option to something larger than the default. this basically sets the smallest unit of storage on the disk (every file, even if 1 byte will use up this much space). large allocation units are generally OK for audio as we are usually not dealing with tiny files.
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