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What is the actual problem ? Please give a better description. Based upon your current description it seems you can't either find a utility at your computer to format a harddisk, or the format-utility at your computer can't format your harddisk.....
You formatted the hard drive on your laptop in NTFS and the MAC cannot read and write to this formatted NTFS hard drive. THE FIX Format the hard drive using your laptop BUT this time format it in FAT32. The MAC can read and write to a FAT32 formatted hard disk, so now you can exchange data between the MAC and the Windows laptop.
The BIOS in the ACER determines the maximum size of the hard drive it can support. Check the laptop's specification to see the max size you can install in this model laptop. It appears that the max size your laptop can support is 140 Gb (unformatted). 137Gb formatted.
I suggest you install a hard drive up to 140 Gb capacity in your laptop and place the 320 Gb hard drive in an USB hard drive adapter case and when you attach this hard drive to the USB port in your ACER laptop then you will be able to get the full 320 Gb capacity after you delete the partition and create a 320 Gb partition and format the hard drive.
Sound like your USB hdd going to fails. Common problem causing this issue is not enough power for external HDDs. If you already attached one USB cable then you should try to use 'Y' USB cable, to give the device more power.
under the laptop xp home sticker. have u backed up personal files ? pics docs music ?
turn pc on .repeatedly tap F12 then put xp cd in it. then choose cdrom. then it will boot to a blue screen. loading stuff on bottom 2 minutes.then 2 options repair console or install windows. choose second. then F8 i agree to licensing terms and then drive is listed.. at that point u can delete and create partition then it will ask to format i do quick. then rest is easy.
It has to do with the way computers count. Computers count in binary where we count in decimal. Hard drive makers list there drives capacities in the decimal format, where windows lists it in it's binary format. Wikipedia has a good explanation.
Also, the drive may have some preinstalled software on it that could be taking up a bit of space (it's usually not much).
What operating system do you have?
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