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connecting PC HDD to a mac

  • 27-06-2006 10:59am
    #1
    clubcrown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭


    So I lent someone an external hard disk drive; and that drive was plugged into a Mac (without my knowlege, but apparently it worked fine).

    When I got it back and connected it to my Pc, all I get is an option to format the drive. I can't see anything on the drive

    Is the HDD screwed, or what the story?


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Unless the HDD was formatted to FAT32 format (AFAIK), if your friend tried to save anything to the disk he may have had to format it, or by writing to the disk it may have caused a corruption. You might have sime success with a file recovery software, but you will have to reformat to use the drive under Windows.


  • #3
    clubcrown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭clubcrown


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Unless the HDD was formatted to FAT32 format (AFAIK), if your friend tried to save anything to the disk he may have had to format it, or by writing to the disk it may have caused a corruption. You might have sime success with a file recovery software, but you will have to reformat to use the drive under Windows.

    She was just taking stuff off the drive, thats the bit I don't understand. She didn't write anything to the disk. I assume theres software somewhere that allows you to access mac-formatted disks on a PC?

    I have all my music on an ipod so thats not fatal, but theres other stuff I don;t have anywhere else........:o


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