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A (possibly stupid) Mac HDD question?

Hoodle · 2005-12-01 21:54:59

I'm looking to get an external HDD to hook up to a PowerBook...can I just buy any IDE HDD and buy a Mac compatible (USB/FireWire) case and hook it up without problems? Like I said, could be a stupid question but something I was told made me doubt myself. Cheers!

01-12-2005 9:54pm

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Hoodle

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I'm looking to get an external HDD to hook up to a PowerBook...can I just buy any IDE HDD and buy a Mac compatible (USB/FireWire) case and hook it up without problems?

Like I said, could be a stupid question but something I was told made me doubt myself.

Cheers!

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#2 01-12-2005 10:07pm

DemonOfTheFall

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Almost certain that it will work perfectly over usb/firewire.

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#3 01-12-2005 10:52pm

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Yes.
(Disk Control or something should allow you to format to suitable filesys (HFS+,etc)

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