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Mac OS
Mac OS 9 does not support creating multiple partitions on an
external drive. To do that, you would need to purchase additional
third-party software, connect the drive to the internal IDE bus or
upgrade to OS X.
For Mac OS X, use the Disk Utility to format and create partitions
on your external disk.
Open Disk Utility (located in Applications > Utilities)
1.
Choose your external drive and setup your disk from the
2.
list on the left, and format using either the “Erase” tab or the
“Partition” tab.
It is recommended that you format the hard drive using the in-
terface you will most likely be accessing the drive with.
If you use Mac
OS X Extended
file system,
the drive will only be
recognised on Mac
systems.
To access the drive
on both PC and Mac,
format the drive using
MS-DOS (FAT32)
If you can not
see the drive,
make sure
there are no
extension conflicts
(Mac OS 9 users) and
the power is turned
on (All users)!
Verify the power light
is on on the front of
the drive.
