re-partition the drive

[ra1969mon]

hi guys my name is marcos.... a thread from a few months ago was saying this:
cksa - Aug 5, 2007 - 1:39 pm Dear Sir
I have bought an external drive packard bell "store and save 3500" of 500 Gb ; it said it was compatible Mac,
i have plugged it and no way to use it.
i have looked on the Packard bell site and have not found any answer or indication.
can you help ?
am i doing something wrong ?
regards
Christophe DeltaMac - Aug 5, 2007 - 4:43 pm That drive is probably formatted NTFS, which means the Mac can't write to the drive, and with no files yet, there's no use for it on the Mac in its present format.
You likely need to re-partition the drive so the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended - using your Disk Utility.

If you need some help with that, come back here.

- Dale
i have the same problem but i'm not so great with computers
can you please explain me step to step how to re-partition the drive
thanks

 

[eric2006]

If the drive is formatted as NTFS, you can reformat it with Disk Utility. To do this, open Disk Utility, located in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

Once in Disk Utility, you should see a list of drives on the left. If you don't see the new drive, then you have a connection problem, not a format problem. To reformat the drive, select it, click the "Erase" button on the menubar, and select a mac-compatible format, such as "Mac OS Extended"

This process will be slightly different with Tiger (10.4) or earlier.

If you continue to run into problems with this drive, try to find it online so we can see exactly what you have and offer more insight.