birdland Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 The is my first post. I recently purchased a Maxtor OneTouch external drive. I used it first on my PC and then purchased a USB only version for the PC and wanted to use the USB/FW version on my mac. I am running OS 9.2.2. I formatted the drive as MAC OS Extended the first time through. I started a backup but it was taking a very long time so I stopped it to restart it later. When I came back, I erased the drive from within Retrospect Express 5.0.238 and started another backup. It eventually died complaining (in the log) that I had reached the 2 GB limit. The format option from the Devices drop down menu is grayed out and drive setup doesn't support it. I tried connecting it back to my PC and reformatting it but the Mac still recognizes it. Yes, I did disable the File Exchange Extension. Any help is appreciated. Right now I cannot backup all of my data. regards, Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Hi Retrospect probably reformatted the disk as HFS standard. Use the MacOS disk utility to reformat the drive HFS extended. Thanks nate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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