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| 441879 | 2006-03-30 00:06:00 | ok, here's the story got an external hard drive for my mac at work, set it all up fine and dandy. then come home to my windows xp machine and plug in hdd into the firewire card. windows detects drive as an unpartitioned drive. would partitioning it delete all the highly valuble files i have on it? |
Downie (10075) | ||
| 441880 | 2006-03-30 00:10:00 | Yes! What format did you make the partition when you set it up on your MAC? | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 441881 | 2006-03-30 00:13:00 | i can't remember. i'm not a huge mac user so i don't know what formats it would have to even start thinking about it. is there anyway at all i could use the drive with my home pc? | Downie (10075) | ||
| 441882 | 2006-03-30 01:55:00 | I'm not a Mac person, so I can only guess. It sounds like you can mount an NTFS (Windows) partition in OS X: developer.apple.com |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 441883 | 2006-03-30 01:55:00 | Format it on the PC. Use FAT32. The Mac will certainly handle a PC format much better than a PC will handle Mac formats. ;) NTFS is probably still a bit iffy for tranfers in both directions. Linux and Mac OS X will read NTFS disks, but since MS won't release documentation there are still suggestions that writing is best avoided. It can be done, but there are no guarantees. The Disk Manager should find it, and do the format. |
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