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External Harddrive Question

  • 27-03-2009 2:37am
    #1
    WanderlustQueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Hullo,
    I have a 500gb Seagate external harddrive, the one where the orange strip lights up when it gets excited!

    ANYWAY, I've been backing up everything onto it no probs, but the other day I wanted to backup some stuff off my laptop onto it, but it wouldn't let me.
    The computer is a windows, but the laptop is a mac. Could this be a protect-file issue or is it a case of mac vs windows again? Or is it just something really simple I need to click on to stop it being protected?

    Thanks in advance! :D


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    What error message are you getting? And yes, it sounds like a Mac vs PC issue but that can be solved http://www.techiecorner.com/159/how-to-format-external-hard-disk-for-mac-and-windows/


  • #3
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Presumedly you have the drive formatted as NTFS. Mac OS X can only read NTFS, not write to it. Mac's use HFS+, which Windows can't even read. So to use it on both systems you'll have to format it as FAT32.


  • #4
    WanderlustQueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭WanderlustQueen


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Presumedly you have the drive formatted as NTFS. Mac OS X can only read NTFS, not write to it. Mac's use HFS+, which Windows can't even read. So to use it on both systems you'll have to format it as FAT32.

    Ah, I see. Danm. I can't really reformat cos I've got everything on it....ah well sure I'll use an old hard drive for the mac.
    Thanks for the help boys! :D


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Or... move everything back to the PC and then format the empty drive?


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