Most external hard drives sold as of September 2012 come preformatted and ready to use. However, there may be times when you'll need to initialize an external hard drive, either because the drive was ...
Ok I have 2 firewire Maxtor hard drives. One is a 120GB 5000DV and the other is a 200GB 5000DV. The 200Gb is the new one. The formatting on the 120 is MAC OS Standard. And the formatting on the new ...