Getting Vista to read a Mac external drive
Oct 3, 2009 | 05:36 PM
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Getting Vista to read a Mac external drive
I am trying to get my images on an external Mac formatted drive onto a Vista based PC.
It's not being recognised...It's about 300 GIGS of data. Do I have to copy the data back onto a Mac and reformat the drive to be able to be used on both systems?
TIA.
It's not being recognised...It's about 300 GIGS of data. Do I have to copy the data back onto a Mac and reformat the drive to be able to be used on both systems?
TIA.
Oct 3, 2009 | 11:10 PM
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You'd need something like MacDrive to mount the HFS+ file system on doze.
You can alternatively reformat the drive into a DOS format, however, be aware that the DOS/NTFS file systems are woefully inferior to HFS and can lead to data loss under certain situations.
Short answer: If you run a DOS file system, don't keep any sensitive data on it that isn't backed up elsewhere.
You can alternatively reformat the drive into a DOS format, however, be aware that the DOS/NTFS file systems are woefully inferior to HFS and can lead to data loss under certain situations.
Short answer: If you run a DOS file system, don't keep any sensitive data on it that isn't backed up elsewhere.
Oct 9, 2009 | 01:40 PM
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Thanks, been having the same issue.
If I format an external drive in a Win format will it be readable on the Mac? I have a bunch of videos on an external that's Mac formatted that I want to be able to transfer to my Win 7 box when it gets here.
If I format an external drive in a Win format will it be readable on the Mac? I have a bunch of videos on an external that's Mac formatted that I want to be able to transfer to my Win 7 box when it gets here.
Oct 10, 2009 | 01:22 AM
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It's not a bad idea to format an external drive with two partitions if you use both operating systems on the same drive-- one HFS, one NTFS. That way you get the benefits of the HFS journaled file system under OS X, and can easily dump stuff into the NTFS partition from doze.
Nov 12, 2009 | 04:54 PM
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You'd need something like MacDrive to mount the HFS+ file system on doze.
You can alternatively reformat the drive into a DOS format, however, be aware that the DOS/NTFS file systems are woefully inferior to HFS and can lead to data loss under certain situations.
Short answer: If you run a DOS file system, don't keep any sensitive data on it that isn't backed up elsewhere.
You can alternatively reformat the drive into a DOS format, however, be aware that the DOS/NTFS file systems are woefully inferior to HFS and can lead to data loss under certain situations.
Short answer: If you run a DOS file system, don't keep any sensitive data on it that isn't backed up elsewhere.
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