How can I share my external hard drive from desktop to mac?

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Matthew T

I have a Desktop PC downstairs connected to my wireless network. I have an external hard drive connected to the PC. I was looking for instructions on how to access the external hard drive from my Mac. I searched the internet, but as you can imagine, I came up with 10 million things that I wasn't looking for. Any help would be awesome.

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You need to add it as a share and then from there you will be able to access it from the Mac by mapping a drive. When mapping the drive, it needs to start with:
smb

Search for file share and that will tell you how to enable the share.

How do I reformat an external hard drive from a Mac to Windows 7, without a Mac?

Ty

I used to have a Mac desktop and laptop, so both of my external hard drives were formatted accordingly. I now have a Toshiba Satellite that runs on Windows 7. I am not able to view either of my external hard drives on my Toshiba - what do I do to change this? Thank you, in advance.

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Does your windows 7 computer identify the devices? It may still identify the devices just not let you view the content of them because they are in a different format. If so take note of the drive letters and go into CMD and type "format drive:x" or something similar. Once it has formatted you should be able to import it as a foreign disk in Disk Management or simply now use it with your windows pc.

Let me know if this helps as im not sure how else it can be done without a mac.

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