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External HDs & Mac OSX

  • 11-11-2004 10:42am
    #1
    regeneration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭


    Here's an odd problem. I have a pen Drive (1gig, basically a mini external HD), and up until the other day I could plug it into my MacOSX (or WinXP/2k) boxes and it worked fine, OSX mounted and wrote/read from it fine. Handy for transferring large files.

    however, only the other day it decided that it couldn't recognise the device inserted. Or said as much - the disk utility still recognised that a FAT-partitioned device was plugged in, and all other aspects of the device it recognised, it just cant mount the device, and doesn't appear on Finder.
    It works fine with XP & 2K, so it's not the pen drive. Also ran teh repair utility in both OSs. Help!


Comments

  • #2
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    The obvious question:
    Have you changed/ installed anything on the mac recently?


  • #3
    regeneration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭regeneration


    No, nothing in any of the machines has changed in the last few days and tested it on another workmate's mac laptop with the same problem. So at first it sounds like the pendrive, but it still works without fault on the windows machines


  • #4
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Reformat the pendrive.


  • #5
    regeneration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭regeneration


    well before i do anything like that - what kind of partitions can OSX view? FAT and NTFS? And vice Versa, can Windows read OSX partitions.


  • #6
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    I don't believe OS X can read or write NTFS (though if certain linux tools get ported it may be able to read it in a limited fashion with some tinkering); I'm 99.9999999% sure that Windows can't read HFS or UFS partitions (from the Mac). FAT/FAT32 is the common denominator; both can read/write it.

    FAT, for all it's flaws, works everywhere (if badly). It's the only logical choice for a pen drive (outside of very specific applications, like booting Linux boxes), IMHO.

    Gadget


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