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Maxtor Basic Hard Drive & XP hassles!

  • 04-03-2009 06:44PM
    #1
    bubblieburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi All,

    I have XP running on my laptop, and a Maxtor basic external hard drive that has been used on a Mac Ibook.

    Plugged the hard drive into the PC via USB, it seemed to run drivers (it picks up Windows drivers does not need its own apparently) and looked good, except it isn't showing up on Windows Explorer (supposed to be Drive F). Checked hardware and it's in there and seems to have no problems but no idea why it won't show on explorer.

    Could it be because it's Mac formatted perhaps?

    Any advice?

    Help on the Maxtor site isn't great...

    http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=FreshInstallXP1&vgnextoid=1d8179093234c110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

    Cheers in advance!


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  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    What file system did the Mac format it using? If its HFS its very likely Windows wont read it, if its FAT32 windows should read it

    Nick

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  • #3
    bubblieburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭bubblieburn


    Thanks yoyo,

    No idea about file system - operating system was OSX, didn't know much about Macs, had the laptop years and guys in Mactivate backed up everything onto the external drive.

    I'm also using a 3G USB modem which could be interfering with the USB external drive, unplugged the modem but no difference.

    Thanks anyway!


  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    bubblieburn wrote: »
    Thanks yoyo,

    No idea about file system - operating system was OSX, didn't know much about Macs, had the laptop years and guys in Mactivate backed up everything onto the external drive.

    I'm also using a 3G USB modem which could be interfering with the USB external drive, unplugged the modem but no difference.

    Thanks anyway!

    It was probably formatted by Mactivate to HFS, as if your contents were being backed up, FAT32 has filesize limits so wouldn't be preferable to use it, If you want to get it working in windows, backup the contents of the external drive onto the mac and format to "FAT32" file system (Don't use Mac but this can be done in "Disk Utility" afaik), there doesn't seem to be any windows drivers to support HFS unfortunately except a commercial package "mac drive" according to google

    Nick

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    My Irish Callcards site



  • #5
    bubblieburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭bubblieburn


    Great stuff really appreciate it thanks!


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