Using external hard drives formatted in MAC OS

Posted: 07-05-2008, 04:41 AM

chrysoloras

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I recently bought a MAC book, and have an external hard drive that I
formatted on the MAC using the MAC extended format. I was told by MAC
technical support that this would allow me to use the hard drive on both my
PC and my MAC book. I plugged in my hard drive on the USB ports, but my PC
does not even show the drive anywhere on the system. Any suggestions? I am
using Vista 64 bit. and my MAC is OS 10.5

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Colin Barnhorst

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Re: Using external hard drives formatted in MAC OS

Posted: 07-05-2008, 07:17 AM

"chrysoloras" <chrysoloras@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5B752352-B832-4F1E-ADB8-9BD8E55B0B2B@microsoft.com...

>I recently bought a MAC book, and have an external hard drive that I
> formatted on the MAC using the MAC extended format. I was told by MAC
> technical support that this would allow me to use the hard drive on both
> my
> PC and my MAC book. I plugged in my hard drive on the USB ports, but my
> PC
> does not even show the drive anywhere on the system. Any suggestions? I
> am
> using Vista 64 bit. and my MAC is OS 10.5

The drive has to be formatted FAT32 for both the PC and the Mac to read and
write to it. If it is formatted NTFS the PC and the Mac can read it but
only the PC can write to it. If it is formatted for Mac only the Mac can
use it.

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