On Oct 20, 6:01*am, Paul wrote:
Searcher7 wrote:

Thanks.

I copied that long post of yours for future reference, because I plan
to get a couple more external drives.(They are usually used and gotten
via Craigslist or eBay). :-)

I all honesty, I'm amazed that these things can be so complicated.
That said, I did what Philo said and deleted the partition in "Disk
Management". It was that easy. Apparently, the first time around I
didn't get all the options for partition size.

It took three hours to format and now I have 465.76GB NTFS to work
with.

Thanks again.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

I found another reference here, to working with Protective MBR disks.
It's interesting that they make the distinction that a Macintosh boot
disk would be GPT, implying that Macintosh data disks (something you're
using for backup) might not be that way.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...h.jsp?DocId=20....

In their sample screenshot of Disk Management, they show what a Protective MBR
disk would look like. You couldn't have had that present on the disk.
I don't know what you had, but it probably wasn't exactly like this.

http://support.seagate.com/kbimg/207837-1.jpg

* * Paul

No it definitely wasn't.

I've notice that things are not always exactly the way the
manufacturers say they are. :-)

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.