can Mac formatted HD be reformatted for win98?

[mikeinfwa]

Saw a Hard drive on fleabay that is Mac formatted. Will fdisk and format c: /s
make this drive usable in windows or is this drive forever banished to the Mac world?


thanks,

mike

 

[Atomicman]

NO

 

[obeseotron]

"No" is hardly accurate.

You have to check out the interface to see if it is compatible with your PC (SCSI etc). I believe new macs have normal ata33 and ata66 drives in them. If they are the same interface, then it shouldn't be much different than converting a hard drive from linux/unix file systems back to fat32. Sometimes fdisk will do it, but othertimes a lowlevel format may be nessessary. After this you should have an average PC hard drive.

 

[zogg]

There is a linux utility called "cfdisk" it has just about every format known to man. I have used to ring back supposedly dead unrefomatable drives and such. It can be found on the slackware distribution that I know of probrobly others. With that you can definately reformat mac and apple formated drives to what ever format you like.

 

[odog]

find out what brand it is.... most likely they have a program to low level format it..

 

[BT7990]

I have used Seagate and Maxitor HD's in Mac's. Right from the box in a Mac, initialize it, with no problems. Could you take a Mac formatted drive and run a low level format then run fdisk and use it in a PC? Probably.