I formated an MPIO portable 1.5GB Hard Disk Drive on Mac using Mac Disk Utility with MSDOS option. Now Windows XP won't read it. What do I do?
2007-02-27 11:56:55 · 6 answers · asked by Buddy 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
How do I format the drive if it won't show up under My Computer in Windows XP?
2007-02-27 12:02:30 · update #1
How do I format as FAT32 on Mac?
2007-02-27 12:03:14 · update #2
No, it won't show up Windows Explorer. It will show up in device manager.
2007-02-27 12:09:19 · update #3
Try and see if it shows up in "Control Panel" and "Administrative Tools".
There go to "Computer Management" and then "Disk Management".
If it shows up there you can format it under "Action" and then "All Tasks".
To format it there highlight the drive and select "Format"
2007-02-27 14:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 01:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by cutburth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Microsoft Windows is very limited in the file systems it can read. Format it again using an old, inferior file system, such as FAT32.
2007-02-27 11:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Format it under Windows XP with NTFS, and if your mac side of things won't read it, then screw it and buy another HDD.
2007-02-27 12:00:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you had left it formatted fat mac and xp could have read it you need to find someone with a utility like partition magic and format it fat again and by fat i mean fat 16
2007-02-27 12:01:07 · answer #5 · answered by bsmith13421 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if it shows up in windows explorer then right click on it, click on format, itl open the wizard and follow the onscreen instructions
2007-02-27 12:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by big bird . 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋