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I have a JVC Everio GZ-HD 6 and want to use its 120GB built-in hard drive to back up my iTunes Library folder. But I also want to continue to use the camcorder unaffected. The hard drive is read-only and is MS-DOS formatted. How do I make the drive writable, and use it as a drive, whilst still being able to use the camera for it’s intended purpose?

This may work:

  1. Clone the drive to back it up
  2. format
  3. partition Hopefully this will work for you. I’m assuming you know how to do all of these steps.

You would have to format the drive from your mac with a partition. But I don’t know for sure that the camcorder would work without it having to format the drive again and possibly removing the partition.