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Thread ID: 118755	2011-06-19 11:21:00	How to use USB drive on Apple and PC	hotkiwi (6379)	Press F1

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1210564	2011-06-19 11:21:00	Friends My daughter has a USB pocket harddrive of 1 Terabyte. She uses it with her Mac. just great. Now she wants to retrieve some large files from a PC, but the PC won't see the drive. Probably because it is formatted as a MAC drive. is there any chance to transfer files on this drive from one system to another? It works fine with USB sticks, so why not with this drive ? Thanks	hotkiwi (6379)
1210565	2011-06-19 11:29:00	You could use something like Macdrive (www.mediafour.com) for Windows. Only thing is, its not free. It maybe the format its formatted in	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1210566	2011-06-19 11:42:00	As some one know knows macs quite well, I agree with Speedy 100%. Macs can read and write Fat32 and read NTFS, but Windows can not even see the mac format of HFS+ You could try HFS Explorer and see if it works. www.catacombae.org	nedkelly (9059)
1210567	2011-06-19 11:49:00	I used MacDrive on an iPod. Works excellent.The only thing was that it was pirated.	bot (15449)
1210568	2011-06-19 12:24:00	HFS Explorer is free and only needs java	nedkelly (9059)
1210569	2011-06-20 08:36:00	How about I format the drive in FAT32 ?	hotkiwi (6379)
1210570	2011-06-20 08:53:00	Should be fine if the files arent over 4 GB. Windows wont copy it, if it is. Do macs have a limit for FAT32 like windows?	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1210571	2011-06-20 09:21:00	Should be fine if the files arent over 4 GB. Windows wont copy it, if it is. Do macs have a limit for FAT32 like windows? I'm pretty sure FAT32 has a 4GB filesize limit no matter which operating system you use it on.	Agent_24 (57)
1210572	2011-06-20 09:45:00	Agent_24 is right, it is a universal format, the 4gb file limit still applies. Hotwiki: Did hfsexplorer work for you?	nedkelly (9059)
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