Format USB/Portable HDD for Mac and PC (3 Solutions)

[BugleBoy2013]

Great video! I appreciate the help!

[giallorossicalcio1]

Thank you so much! You're the man

[tamaras82]

Hi & Thanks!

I partitioned my Toshiba Portable Canvio 1T hard drive into 4 partitions: 1 for my iMac Time Machine, 1 for my MacBook Time Machine, 1 for my PC back up, and 1 for my Media. The first 2 in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, and the second 2 in MS-DOS(FAT) format.

My problem is that my PC doesn't see my Media MS-DOS(FAT) partition (maybe because I already put some media from my Mac?). Is there a way to format again only this partition without loosing the data on the others?

[MarrkDaviid]

@tamaras82 You can reformat the partitions, though adding data from your Mac to the FAT partitions wouldn't be what is causing your issues. If I was in the same situation as you, I would setup my Mac so it could write to NTFS drives.

[deepsukhwani]

Is this the MBP 2011 you are using? If yes? How has been its performance? Any troubles? Like freeze or wireless dropping or anything at all?

Thanks!

[MarrkDaviid]

@deepsukhwani Nah, it is the 2011 iMac. :)