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Firewire harddrive formating help needed!

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MegaCharger

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I recently bought a 120 GB firewire drive. Long story short, it was formatted only for Mac, but I need to be able to transfer files between the schoo Macs and my home PC. I took the drive to the store, they say I would need to format the drive in FAT32 or something to be able to make both PC/Mac read the files. He said I can only do it on a PC.

So is FAT32 the format I should format my firewire? And how do you format a firewire harddrive on a PC? Do you go to DOS or something?

Edit: bump... Nobody can help =(?
 
Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc > Rclick the drives unallocated space (or weird filesystem :p ) > Partition and Format
 
New problem, I can't locate the firewire. The PC detects it, the safely remove hardware thing is coming out on the bottom, but I can't see the drive itself in my computer nor on desktop. I'm running the latest XP Pro SP1, what can I do??
 
but its assigned a letter in Disk Management?

It would probably need a driver?
I assume its like my little usb flash card reader

Start > Run > (type) compmgmt.msc > Device Manager > little yellow questionmak?
 
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