Reformating a Harddrive

[sweave]

okay i have this seagate 320 that i put in an vantec enclosure

was using it for a portable hd
my friend who has a mac needed me to fix her comp so i took it over and backed up her system
but the problem was that my porta was formated as ntfs so i had to reformat to the mac setting to get it to work
now that thats over with i wanted to reformat to fat32 so i dont have this problem in the future

the only thing is that my computer does not recognise the drive when i plug it in now
any ideas anyone?

[foolkiller]

Just go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. Find the correct drive in the list, delete the partition and then create it again. That should fix you up.

Make sure you do this to the right drive if you have more than one 320GB drive, or you'll end up nuking the wrong one.

[sweave]

thx :)
apparently i needed to initialize the disk first before it bothered to even notice the usb drive was plugged in

[foolkiller]

Glad to hear you got it fixed up.