How to format a Firewire hard drive in XP?

[Eug]

I have a VIA chipset Iwill Firewire OHCI-compliant card that seems to be working normally.

I just received my Oxford 911 chipset 60 GB Transintl Firewire hard drive and it came HFS+ formatted for Mac. It works fine on my iBook, but I want to use it with both my XP box and my iBook. My iBook will read FAT32 so I want to format it as FAT32.

However, my XP box, while recognizing it, doesn't register it in Windows Explorer. Hardware Devices has it listed as a drive and working properly. I can get it even get info on its size etc. but obviously it doesn't recognize the drive type since it's HFS+.

Without dismantling the case and installing it as IDE and reformatting that way, how do I reformat it to FAT32?

 

[Eug]

Pix!

Oxford 911 drive listed in Device Manager

Oxford 911 drive properties

Oxford 911 drive properties - "unitialized" (after pressing "Populate")

 

[Eug]

Bumpage!

 

[SocrPlyr]

i know on windows 2k... so i'm sure it is similar on xp that you have to go into the adminstative tools and then into something else and there is a thing to partition it and then you will be able to format it... i don't know where this is on xp, but i figure it would be a similar process

hope this helps

Josh

 

[SocrPlyr]

oh by the way it is like this because windows probably doesn't recognize the partition type, therefore it thinks it is unpartitioned, also i know there used to be programs to read mac file systems so if this doesn't work maybe try one of those out...

hope that helped a lil more

Josh

 

[Fiera]

In XP go to control panel - admin tools - computer management under Storage at Disk Management. you should be able to see all the avaliable disks formated or not. Right click and format how you want.

 

[Eug]

OK thanks.

Come to think of it in the past when I was able to format from Windows Explorer, the drive was already partitioned, just not formatted. This time around the weird Mac setup probably just confuses it I guess.

Hopefully my Mac would have issues with FAT32.