I'm fairly new with the Mac and with an external hard drive. Please bare with me:
I have a MacBook Air with a 60 gig hard drive, OS 10.6.2 installed, Parallels Desktop w/ Win Xp installed and a Seagate 500 gig external hardrive formated in MS-Dos (Fat32). I should say that when I bought the hard drive, it didn't work with my Mac until I brought it to a Mac Store and they re-formatted it for me. When I plug it in, my Mac sees it, and when I open it, I see a couple of files in the main window and my Mac stuff in the side panel. Now here's my problem: I don't know how to use this drive. When the drive was re-formatted, all information on and about the drive was lost. I do want to use the drive to save photos and music and would also like to be able to install certain programs on it, both in Windows and Mac. I'm sorry this is so long. If anyone sees their way to help, I'd appreciate it.
I have a MacBook Air with a 60 gig hard drive, OS 10.6.2 installed, Parallels Desktop w/ Win Xp installed and a Seagate 500 gig external hardrive formated in MS-Dos (Fat32). I should say that when I bought the hard drive, it didn't work with my Mac until I brought it to a Mac Store and they re-formatted it for me. When I plug it in, my Mac sees it, and when I open it, I see a couple of files in the main window and my Mac stuff in the side panel. Now here's my problem: I don't know how to use this drive. When the drive was re-formatted, all information on and about the drive was lost. I do want to use the drive to save photos and music and would also like to be able to install certain programs on it, both in Windows and Mac. I'm sorry this is so long. If anyone sees their way to help, I'd appreciate it.