I have a new Western Digital Elements and I need to format it for Mac and PC. I have a G-Tech drive (which has content from an FCP edit) and I need to make a duplicate of the content onto the Western Digital so that the client who has a PC can open the files.
Any help? I tried searching in Disk Utility for FAT-32 but couldn't find it and didn't want to do something to harm the drive.
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 5,1, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
It is best to format the external HDD on a PC. I recommend to format it to FAT.
Ciao.
Is this the only option? I don't easily have access to a PC, if you can believe that! If I find one, is there special software or a program to use. I'm no longer familiar with PCs and I know that my friends won't know about this formatting.
I have numerous external drives all formatted as FAT 32 on the Mac which transfer Quicktime back and forth between Windows and Mac machines.
As an additional note, check that the CODEC used for these files is available on the PC or they wont play.
We encode our client previews as H264 for playback only.
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Partition >
in volume scheme select 1 partition
format: MS DOS FAT
options > Master Boot Record
apply and it will partition and format the drive
Understand that FAT 32 has a 4GB file limitation. If you can live with that, you will be OK. Here are format directions:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/
Ciao.
Format a Western Digital Elements for MAC and PC
