Need to reformat hard drive mac to pc using windows (hd, right click)

[mchank]

I have a passport external hard drive that was formatted to MAC and music stored. I now need to have access to the music on my home PC.

I downloaded HFS+ explorer and copied all the music to my computer but now I want to reformat the drive to be PC friendly not apple friendly.

I right clicked on my computer> computer management > Storage > disk management but the computer does not recognize the external hard drive as existing at all. Any suggestions for the next step to get it back to NTFS? Thanks

[NHDave]

Do you still have the Mac? If so connect the drive to that and reformat it as Fat32, then move it to the PC and format again as NTFS.

[DFBonnett]

I once bought a USB enclosure with an HD that had been formatted for a MAC. It was a no go on a PC. I found a freeware program called LLFsetup.exe, used that to do a low level format, then formatted for Windows. That was the fix.

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by DFBonnett

I once bought a USB enclosure with an HD that had been formatted for a MAC. It was a no go on a PC. I found a freeware program called LLFsetup.exe, used that to do a low level format, then formatted for Windows. That was the fix.

You can't actually low level format modern drives.