Format Hard Drive for Use on Mac AND PC

[9lovelife6]

This is really helpful and i found everything execpt when i tried to erase the harddrive it said that it couldn't do it with this message:

Disk Erase failed with the error:

POSIX reports: The operation couldn’t be completed. Cannot allocate memory

PLEASE HELP

[aaronmishoe]

Vid was a big help.  Thanks!

[bhopi2010]

Thanks for your simple explanation. After an hour of frustration trying to follow instructions on several of the techie sites, I followed yours and was ready to go in 20 seconds. Kudos!

[moy310]

Thank you so much!!! Ive been struggling for hours on my PC and it didnt give me the option of formatting it to FAT32(only NTFS). I plugged it into my mac and it only took 2 minutes. tops.,

[kanche8]

thanks, it worked. =D

[MrNegroguira2011]

OSXLionTech ..Thank you so so much for your help and taking your time to do this video. I followed every step of what you said to do..and it did worked. Thank You again.

[typicalthugsta]

i have a 2tb WD and its formatted to FAT 32, and my ps3 is 4.00 firmware, but it doesn't show up on my ps3 why?? please help!!!!!!

[r2c123]

awesome and its only gonna erase my hard drive or even my whole computer?

[aycardo10]

This won't work on the xbox 360 D:

[jchittick26]

Thank you so much! I had it formatted for Mac use only, but couldn't work out how to format (if at all) for PC as well, tyvm!

[kalaniman1movies]

thanks for the tutorial

[phello83]

thank so much i needed this

[chichoriso90]

Thought i had wasted my money lol, Thanks a lot!

[Brandenmikerose]

i tried that and it came up with a with say "volume erase failed" couldn't amount disk. help!

[jamacianbanana]

hi i have a 1tb external wd hardrive and when i try and do this thing you are showing us, it says error; please unmount hardrive or something like that.

please help?

(:

[alexdionisio]

Hi do i have to erase even i want to format a new Western Digital my passport SE i tb? thanks for your help...

[banaman1234567890]

Thank you So much

[brittsbook]

This helped a bunch,

very clear & simple to understand.

Thank you! :)

[arnelsingto]

thankyou man! 

[ameen7942]

thank you

[TheYoungacetv]

thank you sooo much. your a lifesaver!

[TyroneeexO]

Where'd you get your desktop background from ?

:) thanks !

[microphonehead55]

Thanks for making this video bro. Just formatted my 750 GB passport.

[markevansdj]

Awesome! Thanks Heaps :)

[christianjosephtv]

Will it work for my 1tb hard drive?

[OSXLionTech]

@christianjosephtv sure thing. any size

[guessurrio]

@OSXLionTech hey man hope you can help me out, I'm about to buy an external disk (seagate or western digital my passport 1tb) I'm still trying to figure out which one is better mainly speaking of speed transfer, AND I'm also concerned because in the back of the WD case it says it's compatible with leopard and snow leopard, but it doesn't show Lion, I've read some reviews that say it's not compatible and some others that say it can be formatted, do you as a real user have the answer?

[AllelujahGamelin]

@christianjosephtv I may be a little late, but regardless, you will be able to format your hard drive for MS-DOS(FAT). Unfortunately, you will not be able to transfer files larger than 4Gb to the hard drive. I imagine if you're using 1Tb this will be a problem. There are work-arounds, but it's more effort than it's worth.

[MrTrebla101]

But if I erase it I will lose all stuff thats in there?

By the way, nice vid.

I have tried to connect my Buffalo external hard drive to my PS3, but it didn't show up, so if I re-format it to that MS-DOS (FaT) it will show up there?

[OSXLionTech]

@MrTrebla101 Well first I would check and see what format your drive is in. If it isn't in MS-DOS (FAT), I would advise you to copy everything onto your computer's hdd and then format the external and then transfer everything back afterwards. You will lose everything on your external if you format it, so you have to back it up. Thanks for watching, too.

[horiizonz1996]

Thank you So much

You Need a lot More Credit!

[OSXLionTech]

@horiizonz1996 Wow, thank you so much. I'm glad I could help you.

[Comosiem]

Your subs are growing :D

Congratulations! You have balls of steel.

[OSXLionTech]

@Comosiem Haha. Thank you, Comosiem. You were like one of the first subs I had, now I have over 100.

[seymoreazses]

cool was gonna buy one of these soon