Re: The wonders of FAT32?

["Lou Judson" inaudio]

Question: How do you format drves as FAT32 with a Mac? The only way I  
know is to initialize it with my 744. How do you do it with just the  
Mac?

Thanks,

<L>
On Mar 8, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Greg Simmons wrote:

> I spent most of yesterday using a borrowed Macintosh to transfer all
> the files off the damaged drive onto numerous smaller hard drives I've
> got hanging around the place (had to format some of them to FAT32 so
> the Macintosh would write to them), then reformatting the original
> drive. Today I am transferring everything back on to it. With over
> 700GB of stuff, it's a slow and tedious process, but it looks as
> though I've lost nothing.
>
> From now on, I think I'll keep formatting my drives to FAT32...