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After switching to an iBook, I still had a 111 gig hard drive which contained a lot of important archives as well as my music collection. I purchased an external enclosure and, with the advice of some on this forum, managed to successfully make the drive FAT32 so that it could be seen and written to by both PC and Mac.
The enclosure itself has 2 firewire and 1 USB connections. Here's the problem.
Both PC and Mac will pick up the device and see it as a drive. The Mac can read and write with no problem whatsoever. The PC can read and behaves as if it is writing, but when I put the drive back on the Mac, I can see nothing the PC supposedly copied over to it. I having to burn nearly a gig's worth of data to cd's today as a result of this mess-up.
If the PC is not going to be able to handle this, would I just be better off converting the drive to Mac's native format (something about journaled) and forgetting about cross-use with a PC altogether?
If it make any difference, I connect the drive to my Mac via firewire and to the PC via USB 2.0 (not at the same time, of course!).
The enclosure itself has 2 firewire and 1 USB connections. Here's the problem.
Both PC and Mac will pick up the device and see it as a drive. The Mac can read and write with no problem whatsoever. The PC can read and behaves as if it is writing, but when I put the drive back on the Mac, I can see nothing the PC supposedly copied over to it. I having to burn nearly a gig's worth of data to cd's today as a result of this mess-up.
If the PC is not going to be able to handle this, would I just be better off converting the drive to Mac's native format (something about journaled) and forgetting about cross-use with a PC altogether?
If it make any difference, I connect the drive to my Mac via firewire and to the PC via USB 2.0 (not at the same time, of course!).