HFS+ to NTFS on a Windows box?

Hi,
I have an external drive that I formatted for HFS+ and now I need to format back to NTFS for use with Windows but Windows will not recognize the drive. I tried MS-DOS file system in Disc Utility with no luck. How do you do this?
Thanks.

The Mac's Disk Utility's "MS-DOS" option is the same as FAT32. Did you try reformating the drive under Windows using the XP Disk Management tool? Right-click My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management; look for a drive that does not show a drive letter (HFS+ doesn't include that so that info is blank to Windows); right-click the drive name and Initialize Disk.

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