best external hard drives for mac and pc image
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I have an external hard drive formatted for a Mac and I have to get the data from it onto my PC. Reformatting is not an option.
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you'll need to get "MacDrive" for windows:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive
you'll need to get "MacDrive" for windows:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive
how do I make an external hard drive work with a mac and a pc?
Fi
I have a seagate usb 2.0 external hard drive and have tried to reformat it to FAT32 but it won't be reformatted, the option of FAT just doesn't come up when i try to do it, how can I get the external hard drive to work on both a mac and a pc?
thanks!
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Actually, there's no reason why you should have any problems at all, so long as the external drive is just for storage. Since the hardware on an Intel Mac and a PC are virtually the same (the Mac's having the better quality components) there's no reason why either wouldn't be able to recognize the drive.
But since you seem to be having a problem anyway, I'd recommend the following...
1.) If you have a firewire port on your external, connect it to a mac using a firewire cable and use disk utility in the utility folder to format the drive as "Mac OS Extended Journaled".
2.) Make sure your computers aren't so old that they can't recognize the drive if it's really big. Older computer firmware sometimes can't recognize larger drives and require partitioning them into halves or thirds. (Although this usually isn't a problem when connecting via USB.)
3.) Check to see if your drive is NTFS formatted. If I'm not mistaken, this is the only format Vista accepts. So if your Mac is old (not an Intel Mac) it might have trouble reading it.
4.) Finally, check the jumpers on the edge of the drive. See if it's set as a master or a slave or something in between and change it accordingly.
These days, there's no reason why a piece of hardware wouldn't be interchangeable in terms of platform. So long as the proper software or firmware is there.
Good luck.
Actually, there's no reason why you should have any problems at all, so long as the external drive is just for storage. Since the hardware on an Intel Mac and a PC are virtually the same (the Mac's having the better quality components) there's no reason why either wouldn't be able to recognize the drive.
But since you seem to be having a problem anyway, I'd recommend the following...
1.) If you have a firewire port on your external, connect it to a mac using a firewire cable and use disk utility in the utility folder to format the drive as "Mac OS Extended Journaled".
2.) Make sure your computers aren't so old that they can't recognize the drive if it's really big. Older computer firmware sometimes can't recognize larger drives and require partitioning them into halves or thirds. (Although this usually isn't a problem when connecting via USB.)
3.) Check to see if your drive is NTFS formatted. If I'm not mistaken, this is the only format Vista accepts. So if your Mac is old (not an Intel Mac) it might have trouble reading it.
4.) Finally, check the jumpers on the edge of the drive. See if it's set as a master or a slave or something in between and change it accordingly.
These days, there's no reason why a piece of hardware wouldn't be interchangeable in terms of platform. So long as the proper software or firmware is there.
Good luck.
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