CHANGE FORMAT without Losing Data

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CHANGE FORMAT without Losing Data

Hi
New MBP with Snow leopard....is there a way to change the Disk Format type from MAC OS EXTENDED to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED) without erasing or formatting the DATA on the EXTERNAL HD?
Have 6TB LACIE external Drive and need to change to MAC OS EXTENDED (JOURNALED) and do not want to loose the data.
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Art

MacBook Pro 2, Mac OS X (10.6.1), MBP INTEL DUAL CORE

Posted on Feb 6, 2010 12:39 PM

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FauxDuFafa

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Mar 8, 2010 11:33 AM in response to Kappy

I'm having a problem as well with the format of my hard drive. I have my itunes completely saved on it but I'm trying to save iMovie files to it and it won't unless I change the format to journaled. I went to try what you had suggested but it won't let me do that. Right now it's

Mount Point : /Volumes/My Book Capacity : 931.5 GB (1,000,202,241,024 Bytes)
Format : MS-DOS (FAT32) Available : 535.1 GB (574,565,351,424 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No Used : 396.2 GB (425,392,734,208 Bytes)
Number of Folders : 0 Number of Files : 0

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Kappy

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Feb 6, 2010 12:43 PM in response to artmat55

Open Disk Utility, select your drive from the left side list, then click on the Enable Journaling icon in the toolbar. This will do what you want without losing anything.

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Mar 8, 2010 11:34 AM in response to FauxDuFafa

I don't want to lose all of my information. Is there a way to change the format without losing info or would it be easier to buy another hard drive?

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artmat55 Author

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Feb 6, 2010 1:14 PM in response to Kappy

Hi Thanks --- wow - so obvious - yet I still missed it!
Art

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