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Formatting WD 1TB Drive to Windows/FATT

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Howard - Sep 6, 2010 at 05:24 AM
Nabla's Posts 20731 Status Contributor - Sep 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Hello, I bought a WD 1TB ext. drive for a MAC BOOK PRO which I'm told is pre formatted to MAC OS. I predominantly use Windows VM on the MAC, which won't recognise the drive! I've been told I can format the drive to FAT. Great. With no technical knowledge at all of MAC, can anybody give me some ideas about how its done? Would love some advice. Cheers.



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Nabla's Posts 20731 Status Contributor
Sep 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM
you'll have to use a partition manager such as easus or gparted. You jsute delete the MAC partition and you create the FAT.

If you only use your drive on windows, i recomand you to format it to NTFS (rhis is possible with windows partition manager, but i don't know how to access it with windows 7). NTFS allows using files more than 4GB.

For FAT partition, windows only creates if disk <32GB ... because it's considered by microsoft as legacy file system