Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Formatting MXI Security drives as HFS+
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:04:18 -0500
On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Rich Trouton wrote:
On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Rich Trouton wrote:
I figured out a way around the problem, though it's not my
favorite. I installed a trial version of MacDrive onto my copy of
XP running in Parallels, then used its HFS+ formatting tool to
reformat the Outbacker MXP. I unplugged the drive, stopped
Parallels, plugged the Outbacker back in and had it mount as an
HFS+ formatted drive. Doesn't look like the drive's bootable (at
least on my MacBook Pro,) but it's behaving itself otherwise.
Interesting that this solution works. For what it's worth, Macs
(as far as I have been able to determine) don't support booting
from USB flash media, no matter the filesystem. Nonetheless, it's
interesting that MacDrive was able to do this, and Disk Utility
wasn't, if the flash drive wasn't enforcing FAT.
The Outbacker is an external USB 2.0 hard drive, so it's not flash
memory. My MacBook Pro should theoretically been able to boot off
of it.
Ah; sorry, I completely glossed over that in your post...I saw that
the first one was a flash drive and then just assumed you had two
different flash drives. Yes, a USB hard disk should definitely be
able to be formatted directly via Disk Utility as HFS+, and be bootable.
The problem might be what Marko alluded to in his response...when you
go into Disk Utility, go to the Partition tab, select the device, and
click the "Options..." button. What is the partition scheme? It needs
to be GUID Partition Table (GPT) or Apple Partition Map (APM) to
support Mac OS X booting. Master Boot Record (MBR), which it may
still be using, won't work for Mac OS X.
PowerPC machines can only boot from APM disks, and the default
partition scheme is APM.
Intel machines can boot from GPT or APM disks, and the default
partition scheme is GPT.
PowerPC and Intel machines running Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later can
*read* all formats.
...with the caveats, of course, being that the OS(es) installed on
the drive also has to support the machine it's booting, etc.
Let me know what you find. I'm willing to bet that it's still
formatted as MBR.
- Dave
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