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<blockquote data-quote="landshark_76" data-source="post: 1212458" data-attributes="member: 197188"><p>Hello, I am new to this forum and relatively new to my iMac. </p><p></p><p>I recently bought a hard drive to save various things on it, but mostly movies and videos. When I bought the hard drive and plugged it in to my Mac, I was unable to save anything to it and so I formatted it not knowing what was wrong. When I did that I formatted it into a Mac OS extended (Journaled) format and was able to save things to it. I also have a media player to watch videos from my hard drive on my TV. </p><p></p><p>So when I plugged in the hard drive, the media player says it cannot recognize it. I also plugged it into my laptop (running Windows XP) and it doesn't recognize it either. </p><p></p><p>Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get it to run on all the systems I have. It doesn't bother me to re-format if that's what I need to do, but I do need to know what to do. </p><p></p><p>I apologize if this has been asked before, but I am in a bit of a hurry as I am in the military and about to deploy (another reason to get it to work on my laptop). Thanks for your help in advance!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="landshark_76, post: 1212458, member: 197188"] Hello, I am new to this forum and relatively new to my iMac. I recently bought a hard drive to save various things on it, but mostly movies and videos. When I bought the hard drive and plugged it in to my Mac, I was unable to save anything to it and so I formatted it not knowing what was wrong. When I did that I formatted it into a Mac OS extended (Journaled) format and was able to save things to it. I also have a media player to watch videos from my hard drive on my TV. So when I plugged in the hard drive, the media player says it cannot recognize it. I also plugged it into my laptop (running Windows XP) and it doesn't recognize it either. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get it to run on all the systems I have. It doesn't bother me to re-format if that's what I need to do, but I do need to know what to do. I apologize if this has been asked before, but I am in a bit of a hurry as I am in the military and about to deploy (another reason to get it to work on my laptop). Thanks for your help in advance!! [/QUOTE]
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