Converting Scratch Disk to NSTC

I need to convert my external disk from FAT to NSTC as I will be using it to edit video files and the 4gb limit on FAT is no good.
Anyone know how I can do that - it was simple in Windows but now I have bought new imac I am stumped as to how to do it.

You probably mean NTFS.
If you are using a Mac, you probably want to format the disk as HFS+ (Mac native), since that supports the Mac user ids / groups / permissions / attributes / etc. where NTFS will not. The Mac's own filesystem supports a maximum file size of 8 exabytes (8 million terabytes). You can use Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) to format a disk using the HFS+ filesystem.
The only situation where you may want to use NTFS is if you know that you will be taking the external drive and moving to a PC quite often (perhaps using it there a majority of the time). Windows can read Mac HFS+ disks using a utility called MacDrive if there's the possibility of an occasional need to access it on Windows and not through a network.
However, if you really need to read/write NTFS on a Mac system, you will need to download and install MacFUSE and the NTFS-3G module for MacFUSE. After that, you can use Disk Utility to format the disk as NTFS. Unlike formatting as a Mac disk, the process does take some time with NTFS. Afterwards, you will have and NTFS-formatted disk that you can read/write on OS X.
A few things should be noted about using MacFUSE+NTFS-3G: You want to use Windows-style partitions, not GPT/GUID since most Windows PCs do not have firmware that can deal with such disk partitions yet (most servers do, but not desktop workstations); second, MacFUSE+NTFS-3G is not a native Mac filesystem and as such it will be a little slower and possibly not as robust against failure as HFS+.

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