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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1171916" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>When you allowed Windows 7 to format the drive, it automatically defaulted to using NTFS since Windows will not format any drive over 32 GB to other file formats.</p><p></p><p>Your brother's Win98 can neither read nor write to NTFS. Win98 can only read and write FAT and FAT-32. Your MacBook should be able to read from the drive but not write to it. Of course formatting wiped everything on the drive out, so that may be the reason your MacBook sees nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1171916, member: 46727"] When you allowed Windows 7 to format the drive, it automatically defaulted to using NTFS since Windows will not format any drive over 32 GB to other file formats. Your brother's Win98 can neither read nor write to NTFS. Win98 can only read and write FAT and FAT-32. Your MacBook should be able to read from the drive but not write to it. Of course formatting wiped everything on the drive out, so that may be the reason your MacBook sees nothing. [/QUOTE]
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