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Allowing a pc to read a Mac formatted external drive

04 Oct 2010 14:08:12 PDT

Hi, I have done this by using a piece of software called 'MacDrive'. It's not free, but pretty cheap. When installed, ...

Sweet!

08 Dec 2009 09:46:25 PST

Thats sounds very easy, thanks, I will let you know next week how it goes!

Kim ...

What the software does,

08 Dec 2009 09:09:31 PST

is allow a Mac to read and write to an NTFS (windows) formatted disk.
Without the software, the Mac can only read fro ...

Hi

08 Dec 2009 06:10:15 PST

I am looking into buying the software you mentioned, it looks like the software lets you connect right up to a pc, is th ...

Connect it to your Mac,

09 Nov 2009 06:01:38 PST

fire up disk utility,
select the drive in the left hand pane,
choose Erase from the tabs.
If Erase is not avail ...

Reformat Mac hard drive?

08 Nov 2009 17:08:46 PST

I had 250Gb external usb drive is had window format. I need to how to reformat Mac ox? ...

External Drive for both Mac/PC

16 Jan 2009 21:01:46 PST

Just bought an IMac running Mac OSX10.5 Leopard .... wanted to use the Maxtor 300 GB external drive I have connected to ...

Apparently, it was

01 Jan 2009 17:14:28 PST

Two years into it and no complaints.

P ...

not as simple as that

01 Jan 2009 16:52:08 PST

I don't think it's as simple as just installing macFuze and then you can magically use NTFS with your Mac. You have to ...

Yes, it's normal

18 May 2008 11:37:17 PDT

If you did the initialization, format, inside Disk Utility, you are done.
It does not take much more that 30 seconds ...

How do I know if I formatted the hard drive on a mac

18 May 2008 10:45:34 PDT

Sorry new to externals... I think I did the format but it was very quick. How can I check? It is a 500GB but it only sho ...

"Mac, NTFS, and Fat on three different partitions??"

11 May 2008 12:55:38 PDT

Let me share I've seen this and the poor owner had lost it all some dozen times till I shared the tip about MacFuse. Tr ...

Formatting a External Drive for Mac and PC use

11 May 2008 08:08:57 PDT

Hey how did you format your external drive with Mac, NTFS, and Fat on three different partitions?? What platform and so ...

I have no problems as yet with FAT32.

08 Nov 2007 06:03:46 PST

I have a large external, and three partitions:

-A medium sized partition, HFS+ for Mac backup.

-A large NT ...

Flaw

07 Nov 2007 20:10:32 PST

It's not really a flaw, but FAT32 wasn't really designed to be used on large hard drives. In your case, Win 98 must've ...

Seems too easy

31 Oct 2007 15:56:44 PDT

I had a problem getting files from my old PC (Win 98) to my new iMac. I finally borrowed a HDD enclosure (Icy Box). Put ...

thx

10 Oct 2007 17:37:17 PDT

OK, thanks. ...

Thank you P.

06 Oct 2007 21:59:39 PDT

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Hey, what are we? Invisible

06 Oct 2007 15:51:28 PDT

The answer is here. Just format the disk using NFTS and run MacFuse on the Mac.

The Mac will read and write to t ...

Thank you

06 Oct 2007 15:48:06 PDT

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To read an Apple formatted drive on the PC...

06 Oct 2007 13:49:26 PDT

We boot Linux. Not an easy task for some but it has allowed me to copy files out.

For Windows their may be some ...

I understood the FAT 32 answer...

06 Oct 2007 13:30:04 PDT

... I have a western Digital external HD formatted in FAT 32. It reads quite well on my apple and windows computers.
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I already answered what to use.

06 Oct 2007 09:22:52 PDT

All that's left is to do it. ...

I could state the obvious...

06 Oct 2007 07:24:56 PDT

... and say that I wouldn't be asking how to do this, if I did know how to, or even where to start researching it. Inste ...

Yet another option

06 Oct 2007 07:00:16 PDT

Take a look at MacFuse.

It enables OS X to read and write to a NTFS formatted disk.

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