disk formatting Q

[STRAT]

Hi chaps

 

Just received my new Formac mini disk in the post

 

http://tinyurl.com/3aep6w

 

it's a native mac thing which needs formatting specifically to work on Win XP. The manual is shite.

All it says is...

 

"to format the disk (NTFS) use the disk management utility in windows to configure a device character"

 

this is kinda sparse info and i cant seem to do it. it's easibly do-able, i just dont know how to do it using the windows disk management system as it suggests. any help please?

 

thanks

[AJLynn]

Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management has a Disk Management section that's for this kind of thing. It would make you use NTFS - Windows imposes a 32GB limit on FAT32. A better option, if you have access to a Mac, would be to use the Mac's Disk Utility to format the disk in MS-DOS mode - it lets you format a volume of that size in FAT32 which makes it read/write on MacOS and Windows.

[STRAT]

Andrew, i know about the "Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management has a Disk Management section that's for this kind of thing." bit, but then what? how do i format from there?

[JamesTaylor]

if the drive shows up in the disk management section, i think you can simply select it, right click on it and choose format (you may need to delete the existing partition first, it should also be an option avaible under right click again)... that should start the process and you'll be able choose the appropriate settings in the dialog box

[STRAT]

thank you fellers. all is good