Mac noob, need some help?

[radar19]

Hey guys, in a bit of a pickle.

Basiclly, I needed to get some files from the Mac's we have at uni but my external drive is in NTFS as I use a Windows based PC. Now I managed to format my drive using MacDrive 8 to the Mac based file format. This allowed the Mac's at uni to see and write to my external so I could transfer the files from the Mac's to my hard drive. However at uni, I used the Disk Utility program to partion my drive to have 50Gb in HSF format and 400Gb in FAT32 format. I copied my files over to the Mac partion and using MacDrive 8, I managed to copy the files to my Windows PC.

Now this is my problem, I cant get my drive to format in NTFS so it can be read by a Windows PC. I have access to both a Windows 7 PC and a Macbook Pro, running Snow Leopard.

Any advice would be glady appreciated.

 

[radar19]

When you say you can't format it to NTFS, why not? This may be the problem I had when I did the same with a flash drive, you have to reformat it using a mac but there's a certain setting you have to tick somewhere

Theres no option on the Mac to format as an NTFS drive. Only MS-DOS FAT which is not being picked up by my Windows PC.

 

[radar19]

When the drive was formatted as FAT32, Windows didnt pick up the drive.