05-03-2010, 05:15 PM

Hi;

I have an issue which drives me crazy . I have upgraded my macbook pro's 120 gb toshiba harddisk with an another harddisk. It works perfectly but I decided to use my macbook pro's old hdd as a external hdd . I bought a 2,5'' sata external hdd box ( akasa ) and installed the hdd in it .

My macbook pro recognize the harddisk via usb and it has no problem but when I use this hdd in my desktop which has windows 7 64 bit, can't recognized. ( but the lights blinking)

I can't see my hdd in the explorer .

Can anybody help me how to fix that problem.

Thank you very much

05-03-2010, 05:49 PM

In order for Windows to be able to "see" your old hard drive, you will either have to reformat it to FAT-32 or use third party software on the PC that can read and write to the HFS Extended file system.

Be aware that FAT-32 has a ~4 GB file size limitation. Also, if you choose to reformat that drive to FAT-32, do not use Disk Utility from your Mac. Disk Utility will create a small 300 MB partition in addition to the main one on the disk. That may cause Windows not to "see" the second partition. Download and use the free GParted to do the formatting. (The Windows formatter will not format a drive to FAT-32 that is larger than 32 GB.)

Regards.