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<blockquote data-quote="surfwax95" data-source="post: 328300" data-attributes="member: 12561"><p>The drive is formatted to NTFS. It needs to be in FAT32 in order for XP and OS X to read/write from the drive.</p><p></p><p>To do this, you'll have to dump all of it's contents onto one of the computers to back it up, open Disk Utility (apps/utilities) and select the drive. Click the "Erase" button and choose "MSDOS" as the schema before you erase the drive.</p><p></p><p>After it erases, drag and drop the files back onto it, then it should work with both OS's.</p><p></p><p>FAT32 doesn't allow single files over 4GB, however, so be careful that you're adhering to this limitation before you do this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="surfwax95, post: 328300, member: 12561"] The drive is formatted to NTFS. It needs to be in FAT32 in order for XP and OS X to read/write from the drive. To do this, you'll have to dump all of it's contents onto one of the computers to back it up, open Disk Utility (apps/utilities) and select the drive. Click the "Erase" button and choose "MSDOS" as the schema before you erase the drive. After it erases, drag and drop the files back onto it, then it should work with both OS's. FAT32 doesn't allow single files over 4GB, however, so be careful that you're adhering to this limitation before you do this. [/QUOTE]
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