08-31-2010, 07:23 AM

Hi all guys, I am new here and new in the MAC world. I used PCs all my life but now in my new office I have to use MAC which is fine but I have a little communication problem with the 2 platforms MAC and Windows.

In few words, I bought yesterday a new hard drive Iomega Prestige Portable HD 320Gb and I have copied some files on it from my HP laptop with Windows Vista. I have to use all these files from the HD on the iMAC.

This morning I have opened the HD with MAC and I have used the file without any problem but now I cannot copy the upodated file from the iMAC to the HD again because seems that the HD on the iMac is only readable and not writeable.

I have to use this hard drive back and forward from WIN to MAC and vice-versa is that possible or am I doing something impossible?

If it's possible, how can i make the HD fully working on both platforms?

Thank you very much for all your help....and sorry for my bad english.


Antonio

08-31-2010, 07:38 AM

Stock Mac OSX and most Linux does not write to an Windows NTFS formatted drive which I am sure the Iomega is. You have two choices.

First which version of OSX is on this new Mac? Is it a brand new Mac? If it's 10.6 Snow Leopard, you can enable Full Read/Write support right in OSX using NTFS Mounter.

Also you can format the Iomega drive FAT32 and both Windows and OSX will read/write to it. One drawback though is no single file can be larger than 4GB.

Can you post the specs on that new Mac and especially the OSX version?

08-31-2010, 08:05 AM

Hi dtravis7 and thank you very very much for your help.
I will try to format the HD again with a FAT32 however the computer I am usign is an iMAC, Model Identifier iMac5.1 Intel Core Duo the O.S. is Mac OS X 10.6.4

Do you need more info?

Thanks again
Antonio

08-31-2010, 08:09 AM

Well you do have Snow Leopard and could use NTFS Mounter on the Mac and not format the drive. Up to you. It's free. I gave the URL in my other reply.

08-31-2010, 12:18 PM

Thank you very very much dtravis7, with NTFS Mounter everything works perfectly! I can use the HD on Win and MAC without any problem!

You saved my day, and also my future with MAC :-).

Grazie
Antonio

08-31-2010, 12:22 PM

I am just glad I could help you. If you need any more help down the line, remember our forums. We are here to help.