Lacie/FAT/NTFS

[Rich]

Hi folks, wondering if anyone can help with this...

I have a 500GB Lacie drive for work. Unfortunately, when it was set up at my work, the IT guy formatted to NTFS (as we use PCs).

Of course this meant I couldn't write to the drive on my iMac at home.

I've tried re-formatting (1 partition) to FAT...but it still won't write.

Whenever I try copying files to the drive on my iMac it says "Can't copy - error code 0"

It seems to read/write fine on the PCs at work.

Any thoughts? I use the drive for audio and editing.

 

[chscag]

How did you reformat the one partition and which utility did you use to do it?

Regards.

 

[scathe]

If the partition is FAT32, then you should be able to read and write just fine. Unless of course you're trying to copy a file that's bigger than 4Gb - the FAT32 limit.

On a side note, you can use something called NTFS-3G to have your Mac OS with NTFS write support.
Just type "NTFS on Mac" in a Google, or even on these forums to find what you need wow, googling is really really hard

 

[Rich]

I formatted in Disk Utility...and the files I was trying to copy were nowhere near the 4gb limit.

strange. its been left with an it guy at work now...we'll see what he says. if not then i might try the ntfs on a mac option. thanks!