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MAC to Windows files

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  • 04-06-2008 11:44am
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    RedXIV
    Registered Users Posts: 8,407 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    Not sure if this is right forum, hope so!
    Just off the phone there from a friend of mine in the middle of her video thesis. She informs me that she's been using a MyBook external harddrive, formatted for windows on her MAC as a base of operations for her thesis but because it's not formatted for a MAC, it only gave 2 gigs of space to her. She decided to back her files up onto her MAC in college but was told it would take 700+ hours to transfer.
    When she cancelled it, she got a few mad errors and now she's having trouble with it. According to the techies in her college, the data is still there, but the address regisiter isn't working, ie, she can't copy or properly read her files. Is she screwed or can something be done?

    Thanks!


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    #2
    muggyog
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭muggyog


    Some questions:

    1. Is the drive formatted NTFS (or FAT)?
    2. What size drive is it supposed to be because 2G would fit on a small memory stick?
    3. USB or Firewire? If there was only 2G available, transfer rate appears a little slow if it was going to take 700+ hrs !!
    4. The 'mad errors' were?


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    ethernet
    Registered Users Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    It's more than likely formatted using HFS+. In this case, it would be advisable to either:
    1. backup the data on the drive, reformat it to FAT32 (or even ext3 but this is a little more work) and then restore the data
    2. purchase a Windows utility which enables you to access data on HFS+ partitions without the need to reformat the drive

    In either case, data will be writable (and, of course, readable) by both Macs and PCs running Windows.


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