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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
using external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="vivienne61" data-source="post: 1266741" data-attributes="member: 208101"><p>Recent convert to macs,loving the release from virus worries!But I have a seagate 320 gig external drive that I want to use with my mac mini.I previously used it with a pc so reformatted it to fat32 as I was advised that the mac would be able to see it then.I intended to get disc utlity to reformat it to mac's format so I could use it.But although finder could see the drive and give info on it ,when I opened disc utlity it just said 'collecting disc information' and stayed like that.The only way I could get it to stop was to force close it.Is it the external drive doing this?Can I leave the disk formatted fat32 and still use it with the mac?I want to use it to put movies on as the mac mini doesnt have much space.<img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Confused.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Confused:" title="Confused :Confused:" data-shortname=":Confused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vivienne61, post: 1266741, member: 208101"] Recent convert to macs,loving the release from virus worries!But I have a seagate 320 gig external drive that I want to use with my mac mini.I previously used it with a pc so reformatted it to fat32 as I was advised that the mac would be able to see it then.I intended to get disc utlity to reformat it to mac's format so I could use it.But although finder could see the drive and give info on it ,when I opened disc utlity it just said 'collecting disc information' and stayed like that.The only way I could get it to stop was to force close it.Is it the external drive doing this?Can I leave the disk formatted fat32 and still use it with the mac?I want to use it to put movies on as the mac mini doesnt have much space.:Confused: [/QUOTE]
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