Hello,

To get right to the point, I need a Macbook hard drive formatted so my Windows laptop's system/recovery disks can "see" it. I don't know anyone in the local area who has a Mac computer, much less a desktop one, and since I spent most of my "extra" money buying the drive, I can't afford to take it to a computer repair shop just to have them format it. If anyone out there knows how to do it, and has the capability, please let me know. I can send you the drive, and data cable if you need it, and of course pay for return shipping, and even a little for your time.

The laptop has been down for almost a year, and I thought I would be getting it back up and running, only to have another stumbling block get in my way. I just assumed the drive could have been formatted by Windows. That is what I get for not knowing the Mac platform (

Jim

 

Jim, don't forget to post in the Chapter Leader forum too. One of your fellow CH/Leads might be able to help you out.

Stewart

 

Now i may not be a california member, or live in cali anymore but from what i get from reading this, your taking a mac laptop and you want to replace the mac OS with a windows one? As far as i am aware you would probably have to format the hard drive and then use the windows disk to re-instal the software. I don't know much about macs but that seems like the next step if the windows disk won't find the hard drive.

Good Luck.

 

Thanks Stewart, thought about that, but decided to check closer to home first.

Gruesome, actually it is the other way around I have an Acer laptop, and the HD died. I bought an HD on ebay, but it has a Mac OS on it. I can't get that OS off. Windows does not see the drive, so I don't have any format command. I looked online, and found out the Mac OS gives you the opportunity to format a drive for Mac use, or Windows use. So, I need someone with a Mac computer to hook my drive up to, and then format it for windows use. That way, when I install it back in my laptop, I can get the recovery disks to see it, and then reinstall the system, and software that came on my laptop originally.

Jim

 

Ooooh ok that makes sense now.