bigeeezee Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 I have used gparted (linux program) to seperate my hdd into 3 partitions. Partition 1 is xp (30 gb) Partiton 2 is 30 gb of blank space formatted to ntfs. Partition 3 is 10 gb of osx (hfs+ format) I want to turn the second 30 gb partition from ntfs to hfs+ so i can put my music on it for my "mac". however, when I try to use disk utility, I cant erase it to an hfs+ file system. It's stuck as ntfs. So, other than using partition magic, how can I turn that second partition into an hfs+ filesystem type? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40281-format-ntfs-to-hfs-using-disk-utility/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Reformat the NTFS partition to FAT32 using any Windows Installer CD, then try again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40281-format-ntfs-to-hfs-using-disk-utility/#findComment-287587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeeezee Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 i though fat32 was a max of 4 gig... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40281-format-ntfs-to-hfs-using-disk-utility/#findComment-287624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackint0sh Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 proteo's advice should work, fat32 doesn't have a limitation of 4gb for partition size, just for individual file sizes. i've got a 300GB fat32 partition on an external drive that i use regularly... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40281-format-ntfs-to-hfs-using-disk-utility/#findComment-287649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeeezee Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 fat32 works just fine. Thanks Proteo. Its guys like you that make me come to this site. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40281-format-ntfs-to-hfs-using-disk-utility/#findComment-287672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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