Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Other Apple Products
Other Hardware and Peripherals
External HD question
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="PowerBookG4" data-source="post: 303747" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>If its formatted Fat32 then your can copy them to the external then use the drive as is, read and write, to the drive in mac osx.. if its ntfs then you can get the files off the hard drive but can not write to it... another thing to do is to put the stuff in the hard drive in the file format you want.. then put them over to the mac .. after the files are on the mac, format the hard drive in HFS+ and then you will be good to go using a mac format on your external.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PowerBookG4, post: 303747, member: 8394"] If its formatted Fat32 then your can copy them to the external then use the drive as is, read and write, to the drive in mac osx.. if its ntfs then you can get the files off the hard drive but can not write to it... another thing to do is to put the stuff in the hard drive in the file format you want.. then put them over to the mac .. after the files are on the mac, format the hard drive in HFS+ and then you will be good to go using a mac format on your external. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Other Apple Products
Other Hardware and Peripherals
External HD question
Top