external hard drive questions

i just bought an hp 300 gb external hard drive and i (was a complete moron) saw that it was only compatible with windows xp, vista, and windows media center...anyways

i have a 13inch white macbook, 1.5 memory, 120gb hd and im getting leopard in a few days, and i need it for my backup
you know; 'time machine, music, movies, etc...etc...'

is there a way to crack this hard drive for it to still work on my mac, or should i just sell it on ebay and get something else?

any help is greatly appreciated!!!

What kind of drive is it? If it is USB it should work fine. Just plug it in and wait to see if OS X recognizes it. You just won't be able to use the bundled software, which is usually rubbish any way.

product description.

# Drive specification: Standard 3.5" ATA drive
# Drive capacity: 300 GB; 7200 RPM
# System interface: Standard USB 2.0 B-type Connector 1 (backward compatible with 1.1),12 Volt DC Input Connector, Power LED Indicator- Blue, Activity LED Indicator-Amber(Yellow),Kensington lock slot, Temperature-sensing internal cooling fan.
# Storage Solution:Sonic, Back Up My PC Special Edition, Adobe Acrobat for reading User Guide.
# HP Media Drive Carton Contents: Hard disk drive in cartridge, Quick Start guide (Poster-style setup illustrations), USB 2.0 B-type to A-type cable (approx. 2 M length), External AC/DC power adapter with removable power cord and DC output cable (12V), CD-ROM (SW drivers/utilities, Sonic Back Up My PC SE, Users Guide),Warranty guide.
# Cartridge power requirements: Input Voltage: 12 VDC +/- 10%.
# AC Power Adapter: Universal external power adapter (in-line, not wall mount), Power cord, International agency approvals, AC input voltage: 100 to 240 VAC,AC input frequency: 47 to 63 Hz,Output voltage: 12 VDC.
# Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Home, Professional, and Media Center Edition Edition

Yeah, the only thing that won't work is the included software. OS X should recognize the drive just fine. You may have to reformat the drive but I doubt it. Good luck.

thanks, i appreciate it.
ill find out whenever it gets here then.

anytime!

Hey

The backup drive i use with my macbook said it was only compatable with XP etc. Plugged it in and it worked fine with OSX
The software they bundle with it wont work, but its usually pretty useless software.

Enjoy your new drive and Leopard

~~ TS ~~

Tender and Babar are right. Things that are ok for Windows tend to work just fine on Macs. While you may not be able to boot from that drive, it'll do what you need it to do, backup stuff.

Correct. You can not boot OSX from a USB device, but it will work fine for backups. The box says Windows only because the software included is only for Windows machines. This actually has nothing to do with the hardware itself. They can't include OSX on the compatibility list because there is no need for the crap software they include with the drive itself and they are to lazy to bother considering it.

Hello
I bought the following drive:
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=89
and it just wont work with my Powerbook. It doesn't read - just makes this clicking noise, like a crashed disk. The drive works fine with my windows machine.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Amitabh