iBook - external hard drive woes...

magind · magind #1 (**permalink**)

02-11-2007, 01:58 PM

Hello, I have a 500G Maxtor HDD [external] installed on my PC. I need to put some files that I have on my ibook on my PC, so I want to plug in my HDD to my ibook, xfer the files onto it, then replug it in to the PC.

I plugged it into the ibook and it automatically came up, and I can see the files, but I can not WRITE to the disk.

Any idea what the problem might be?

Thanks!

Stretch · Stretch #2 (**permalink**)

02-11-2007, 02:01 PM

I'd guess that its formatted as NTFS, which Macs can read to but not write to.

magind · magind #3 (**permalink**)

02-11-2007, 10:32 PM

ohhhh, can i convert it to fat32 with my pc then both can read/write?

Stretch · Stretch #4 (**permalink**)

02-11-2007, 10:36 PM

Yeah, but you will loose all the data currently on it. So make sure you have another copy of it before you reformat it.

Stretch #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 13, 2007 Location: Central New York Posts: 4,614 Mac Specs: 15in i7 MacBook Pro, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD, 500GB HD	02-11-2007, 02:01 PM I'd guess that its formatted as NTFS, which Macs can read to but not write to. Blog and Photo Gallery: http://philolin.me/ Currently running OS X 10.8.2
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Stretch #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 13, 2007 Location: Central New York Posts: 4,614 Mac Specs: 15in i7 MacBook Pro, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD, 500GB HD	02-11-2007, 10:36 PM Yeah, but you will loose all the data currently on it. So make sure you have another copy of it before you reformat it. Blog and Photo Gallery: http://philolin.me/ Currently running OS X 10.8.2
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Member Since: Feb 06, 2007 Posts: 3	02-11-2007, 01:58 PM Hello, I have a 500G Maxtor HDD [external] installed on my PC. I need to put some files that I have on my ibook on my PC, so I want to plug in my HDD to my ibook, xfer the files onto it, then replug it in to the PC. I plugged it into the ibook and it automatically came up, and I can see the files, but I can not WRITE to the disk. Any idea what the problem might be? Thanks!
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