Reformating MAC HDD to IBM?

[trey_w]

i wanted to know if anyone has ever taken a Mac HDD and formated it to IBM format

the reason is that in my University, we cleaned out a room full of stuff they did not want.

I got 2 9 gig SCSI(seagate) HDD

and 2 1.7 GIG IDE Western Digital

But like i said, they were in Macs

now, i've reformated Floppy disk before that were for Mac and it works fine

just didn't know if Partiion majic would recognize the HDD?

i think it will but have never done it

oh ya BTW, i got a adaptec SCSI controller(retails at $200+)

did i get really lucky or what?

all free

 

[PsycoPhreak]

heh heh, good score!....Yes, you can format the drives for the pc...just run FDISK or any other partition software. Just because they were in a mac, doesn't mean they won't work in a pc...a drive is a drive...all that matters is what format system it uses...again...good score, it's great getting stuff for nothing.....

 

[David]

Repartition and reformat. Macs use the HFS file system so windows will not read it. It can be changed tho. 2 free 9Gig SCSI drives! That would make a mean RAID 0 array.