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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 683243" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>You should be able to format the drive from Windows but either way you want to use FAT-32 (which is MS-DOS on the Mac) and not NTFS. It sounds like you did everything right, I don't know why the Windows box won't read the drive that was formated as MS-DOS on the Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 683243, member: 6762"] You should be able to format the drive from Windows but either way you want to use FAT-32 (which is MS-DOS on the Mac) and not NTFS. It sounds like you did everything right, I don't know why the Windows box won't read the drive that was formated as MS-DOS on the Mac. [/QUOTE]
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