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External Hardrive on Mac

  • 18-12-2005 5:40pm
    #1
    ohandels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭


    I recently got a ibook but it wont let me put anything onto my external hardrive, it says its read only, but if i use it on a pc it works fine, any ideas why this is happening?


Comments

  • #2
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    What filesystem is it formatted in?


  • #3
    ohandels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭ohandels


    Its NTFS ill download that link and let you's know how i get on, cheers lads.


  • #4
    thund3rbird_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭thund3rbird_


    this same problem was bugging me for a while - I was looking in permissions :o

    gonna try this & see how i get on


  • #5
    ohandels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 192 ✭✭ohandels


    I installed the software and know it wont even find the hard drive, any ideas?


  • #6
    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    ohandels wrote:
    I installed the software and know it wont even find the hard drive, any ideas?
    I just bought a LaCie 160GB External today and it was preformatted to NTFS. I needed it to work on both my PC and iMac so I reformatted the drive and partitioned it into two drives. One is NTFS for use with Windows XP, the second is HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) for use with OS 9.x

    Now, when I connect it to my iMac G3 it only reads/mounts the HFS+ drive. So I'm guessing your drive is not formatted to HFS+ (which it must be for Mac OS 9.x). You should've got a software CD with the drive to allow you to partition and format the drive. Although I see it wont read it at all. I suggest you connect to a PC if you can and partition a drive in HFS+ filesystem (or FAT32 and then the Mac will read it and you can re-partition from there to HFS+).


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