If anyone can help me out at all let me know! Thanks! But when a right click on that, go to New Partition, and go thru all the steps with that, when i'm finally ready to format it(and hit Format).it says 'The requested operation cannot be completed because the media is write-protected' (thats of course with my Pc) so i assume it is a matter of 'un-write-protecting' the drive? Now i just want to simply format that 160gb 'Unallocated' area NTFS. It reads that there is a formated drive in My Computer but when i go to Partition Magic or Disk manager it reads as the entire drive is 'Unallocated'ĪND FINALLY.the closest i've come to completing this task is.when i went to My Computer->Manager and all that jazz, It showed up as 160gb and 305gb, so that is a step further than before. I have also tried to format using DIsk Utility and then take it to my Pc. I have tried to format and partition it first on a Windows computer (using both Partition Magic and the Windows Disk Manager) and then take it to my Mac, but it doesnt say they are 2 different disks, rather just 2 volumes, therefore i cant format each one individually. So my question is how do I format my Western Digital external hard drive for 305gb HFS+ (mac use) and 160 NTFS(or fat32) for my Windows computer? I have tried many many manyyyyy times to accomplish this on my own and everytime something just doenst work out! I have searched high and low for the answer to this question.

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