I would have used my Mac to format the drive for Windows.
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
Hi All, I'm trying to format a Mac HDD using Windows XP but when I plug it in (I'm using a USB - Sata thingy) it says it's a GPT Protective Partition and won't assign it a letter or let me access any of it. Any ideas how I can do this? |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
http://blog.paulgu.com/2008/01/06/how-t ... partition/ |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
I would have used my Mac to format the drive for Windows.
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| Author: | timark_uk [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:24 am ] | |||||||||
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Mark |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:35 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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There are times when things just don't work like that... Thanks for the link, Ollie. |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
The drive hasn't been in my Mac for a few months now and I don't have a USB-Sata adapter at home. Brought the drive in to work to do it here. Anyway, seems it's fairly straight forward to remove the "protected" partition. 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
Fair enough. I guessed there were reasons why the easy route wasn't followed. 
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
Nice link Ollie. Bookmarked |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
I had never even heard of DiskPart until today!
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format a Mac HDD using Windows XP |
If the disk is blank I use Disk Utility on my Mac to wipe all partitions off then create an empty (unformatted) partition. Stick the drive into Windows, open the drive and follow the on screen messages to format the drive... |
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