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<blockquote data-quote="Migraine" data-source="post: 544866" data-attributes="member: 10028"><p>If you have access to a Windows PC, check to see if the drive has been formatted to NTFS. NTFS is Microsoft's propriety files system for hard drives, Mac computers can't write to them. </p><p></p><p>In Windows XP just click My Computer, Click once on your external hard drive, on the left side of the screen under DETAILS, looks for File System: NTFS or FAT32. If it's NTFS, just Right Click on your Hard Drive and select FORMAT. Format your external hard drive to FAT32 so your Mac can read/write to it.</p><p></p><p>After this you can keep it in FAT32 if you swap between Mac and Windows PCs, if not use Disk Utility in Mac OSX and format it there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Migraine, post: 544866, member: 10028"] If you have access to a Windows PC, check to see if the drive has been formatted to NTFS. NTFS is Microsoft's propriety files system for hard drives, Mac computers can't write to them. In Windows XP just click My Computer, Click once on your external hard drive, on the left side of the screen under DETAILS, looks for File System: NTFS or FAT32. If it's NTFS, just Right Click on your Hard Drive and select FORMAT. Format your external hard drive to FAT32 so your Mac can read/write to it. After this you can keep it in FAT32 if you swap between Mac and Windows PCs, if not use Disk Utility in Mac OSX and format it there. [/QUOTE]
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