External FW drive formatted on MAc won't show up on PC?

keano12keano12
edited April 2004 in Hardware
I am trying to format for my PC but I don't even see it in the My Computer area. It was formatted for MAC, but shouldn't I have a choice to format it back to a PC system?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    you need to right click my computer, click "manage" and go to "disk management" in order to see it. It won't show up in "my computer" unless it has a valid FAT/FAT32/NTFS filesystem.

    Welcome to short-media. :rockon:
  • keano12keano12
    edited April 2004
    Hi Primesuspect,
    thanks for reply.
    I see it in the drive area it is called:
    DMI0 IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device

    But I don't know what to do to it to make it seen in My computer so I can format it?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Right click on the partition that it shows and select "delete partition" - then you can right click on the empty partition and format it.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    now that u mentioned the IEEE 1394 part, i know what FW is now, before i was wondering WTF is a FW drive???
    andi didn't want to sound stupid asking, hehehe
  • keano12keano12
    edited April 2004
    got it thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
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