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OSx and Windows XP Hard Drive format???

  • 13-10-2004 7:15pm
    #1
    dabhoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 800 ✭✭✭


    Hi there I was wondering if anyone could help me. My computers in college are mac and my computer at home is pc. I brought in my hard drive today and it didn't run on mac. It is FAT32 formatted I assummed that would work.

    Is there something else I need to do. I need to be able to save my audio files on this to work at home too.

    Please help

    Cheers...


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    "run" you must mean READ
    No MAC will boot up off a PC hard drive because the procesors are so different, the old 68000 series and intel processors stored number differently - and every nth instruction is a number relating to a memory address or a count etc.

    the college would most likely take a dim view of adding your hardware to thier network - find out how much they spend on antivirus / firewalls etc per year.

    http://www.macwindows.com/ - a great starting point on pc <--> mac compatibility.


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If you're talking about an external USB hard-drive, OSX should be able to read from it, provided you mount it as the right file system (I'm not 100% sure on this, but as it's unix-based I assume it'll work).
    Does the mac recognise the drive at all when you connect it?


  • #4
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    A mac should read any windows drive fat 32 OR NTFS (read only with NTFS though)

    OSX will also read unix partitions or mac partitions,

    Dont suppose the college admins locked the mounting of external drives perhaps ?


  • #5
    dabhoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 800 ✭✭✭dabhoys


    It does recognise it just tells me its not formated. Its currently formatted in FAT32 and from what I understood mac would be able to read this. So I'm wondering if theres something missing.

    As for the college worrying about me hooking up an external hard drive. There the ones who told us they'd be a good idea to get as working with audio files takes up alot of space...


  • #6
    dabhoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 800 ✭✭✭dabhoys


    Could it have anything to do with how I connect it to the Mac. At home I use USB but I used firewire in college. Maybe thats why? I'll bring it in with my tomara and try that.

    I also have one of those USB memory pens and it worked perfect. I used to to save all my work today. Brought it home and windows read it perfect.

    I'm wondering why my HD won't work...


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  • #7
    deevey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 707 ✭✭✭deevey


    Yeah i have had this prob with my disks as well on occasions,

    I normally find that booting the mac with the disk already inserted does the trick, should mention that I was doing the same as you, usb for PC and firewire for the mac.

    If that didnt work Sometimes just running a few files back and forth on the pc from the disk and then try the disk in the mac before booting, did the trick.

    Dunno why it happens... What i found more annoying was when the disk wouldnt read on the PC and i needed to plug it into the Mac and run a few files back n forth to make it work in the PC again... gah!

    You might also do a disk check on the PC before trying it again..

    Laters

    Steve


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