yoyo55 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I read a lot of posts/threads/sites about converting FAT32 to Mac OS X Journaled Drive but i never understood any of them Can someone who has done this conversion plz tell me how to do this???? Thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
articquad Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Converting? I think you have to back it up, and then format to HFS+.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-610425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyo55 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 That's the thing. I don't know how to do that!!!??? how do you backup/htfs+??? PLZ tell me step by step Thanx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-610434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 go into disk utility, select the drive, and erase it using HFS+ from the drop down menu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-610769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 reformat the drive in disk utility HFS+ formated drives cant be accessed from windows ( without special apps) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-610862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyo55 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 wow i m probably the only one with this problem cuz when i go to disk utility there is no drives there's -->my DVD burner -->my DVD (for installing Leopard) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-611050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 did you set up your bios to SATA AHCI ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-611347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyo55 Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 If you mean to set boot on the DVD Drive first then yes... but i check for SATA AHCI , nothing was there..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-612063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netbotix Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 My HD didnt show up (ATA) ended up switching to SATA and it worked fine. I know you are trying to use SATA, but maybe swap out an IDE just for testing. It seems differnt boards like different formats (from what I have read) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-613016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyo55 Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 My HD is SATA though... I really don't think I can change that... I just need the MAC installation to DETECT my FAT32 partition so that i can continue to install... Can anyone that knows what to do clue me in???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86025-how-do-you-change-fat32-to-mac-os-x-journaled-drive/#findComment-613194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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