Reformat PC Drive to Mac

Natobasso · #1 March 13th, 2007, 09:37 AM

I have an older Maxtor drive I put into a new case. It's an 80gig USB and Firewire drive with power cable.

Here's the problem. I can see the drive on my mac but not my pc. It's formatted for a pc, I believe but when I get info on it the drive is locked and I only have Read Only permissions to it. Disk Utility can't erase it.

What can I do to erase and reformat this drive so that it's fully mac compatible and has Read/Write permissions for me? (I don't care about the data on the drive).

billbaloney · #2 March 13th, 2007, 12:10 PM

Have you considered that the hardware might be the problem? Or did you rule that out already?

Natobasso · #3 March 13th, 2007, 01:37 PM

Drive shows up on my mac, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.

bobw · #4 March 13th, 2007, 01:45 PM

Check the Man pages for diskutil and see if you can format it that way.