| I opened up a terminal session and poked around looking for "fdisk" and "makefs". I found the "fdisk" command and it does what I would expect it to do. I did not find any command that jumped out at me that would create a filesystem. I then powered up the USB2.0/Firewire external drive. The drive has two partitions. The first partition is formated for NTFS, and the second partition has not been formated in anyway shape or form. I plugged the external drive via the Firewire port and looked at the "Console" window for any message regarding a newly added drive. Non was found. Then I did as you suggested. I looked at the "Applications/Utilities" and started the "Disk Utility". Again I was not able to see a second HD. All I see there is the DVD drive and the the original HD.
Am I to understand that I need to remove all partitions from the external drive (USB2.0/Firewire) then plug it into the mac at which point I can use the disk utility to create a partition to be used with the mac and then plug external drive to Window box to create a new partition to be formated in NTFS?
TIA  |