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<blockquote data-quote="DodgeViper" data-source="post: 914547" data-attributes="member: 114606"><p>This worked for me. I had made the mistake of taking my portable Seagate 500g drive and formatting to work on the Mac and then was not able to use on my PC. I reformatted the Seagate in Disk Utilities using MS-DOS of which allowed me to see the drive on my PC. Next I reformated the Seagate to NTFS format on the PC and was able to recover using the HD on my PC.</p><p></p><p>The problem I am having is Mac will allow me to use a HD if formatted in FAT32 but I can not copy and paste large files such as movies from my PC onto the drive that is formatted in FAT32. On the flip side of this I can copy and paste movies to the HD when formatted to NTFS but the Mac will not see the HD...</p><p></p><p>So I can't have the best of both worlds. I have installed the DIVX player on my Mac but can't seem to find the path when using Utorrent to download the movies to the Seagate drive when it was formatted to the OSx format.</p><p></p><p>I would really like to be able to use the Seagate to store HD movies I have downloaded and play from my Mac to my Plasma...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DodgeViper, post: 914547, member: 114606"] This worked for me. I had made the mistake of taking my portable Seagate 500g drive and formatting to work on the Mac and then was not able to use on my PC. I reformatted the Seagate in Disk Utilities using MS-DOS of which allowed me to see the drive on my PC. Next I reformated the Seagate to NTFS format on the PC and was able to recover using the HD on my PC. The problem I am having is Mac will allow me to use a HD if formatted in FAT32 but I can not copy and paste large files such as movies from my PC onto the drive that is formatted in FAT32. On the flip side of this I can copy and paste movies to the HD when formatted to NTFS but the Mac will not see the HD... So I can't have the best of both worlds. I have installed the DIVX player on my Mac but can't seem to find the path when using Utorrent to download the movies to the Seagate drive when it was formatted to the OSx format. I would really like to be able to use the Seagate to store HD movies I have downloaded and play from my Mac to my Plasma... [/QUOTE]
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