thanks wakester,
this is what I ended up doing as well. for some reason the external hard drive was still unwritable when my pc was booted using knoppix (linux), but i booted using a bart pe boot disk and i was able to get it going.
The mac I am using is a 3.5 year old ibook, mac osx version 10.3.9.
I am aware of the file transfer size limitations of the FAT format. It will not be used for any large files, but rather a lot of smaller files.
To be more specific about my predicament, I currently have a desktop PC and a...
I am trying to reformat a 500 GB USB HDD to one FAT32 partition so that I can use it on a Mac and a PC. I have seen many references to using the disk utitilty and creating a partition in MS-DOS format, but my computer does not have that option. The only four options I have are Mac OS Extended...