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How to play music formatted in windows on a mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1696858"><p>Cedar Money, first, thanks for getting back to us. Second, there is simply no way that the drive was "automatically" formatted, or erased by OS X. That's not how the OS is built. In fact, to make a change like that you would have to provide an administrator's password before the changes would be made. </p><p></p><p>Now, what Ian said to do will work, but an easier way is to simply open Disk Utility in the Appplications/Utilities folder and click on the drive and read what it says about the drive at the bottom of the window. No need to click on erase, or any other action. I suspect the format will be NTFS, the windows standard (That is why you can read/write to it from your Windows machine. As I said earlier, OS X can READ, but not WRITE to NTFS drives.) If it's in FAT format, then both Windows and OS X can read/write, but there are file size limits. </p><p></p><p>One thing is for certain. OS X did NOT format or erase the drive. Something else may have happened, but not that. One thought, is this external drive powered by the USB port or is does it have its own power connection? If USB powered, is it possible to connect it to an external power supply? I'm wondering if the drive simply isn't getting enough power from the USB port.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1696858"] Cedar Money, first, thanks for getting back to us. Second, there is simply no way that the drive was "automatically" formatted, or erased by OS X. That's not how the OS is built. In fact, to make a change like that you would have to provide an administrator's password before the changes would be made. Now, what Ian said to do will work, but an easier way is to simply open Disk Utility in the Appplications/Utilities folder and click on the drive and read what it says about the drive at the bottom of the window. No need to click on erase, or any other action. I suspect the format will be NTFS, the windows standard (That is why you can read/write to it from your Windows machine. As I said earlier, OS X can READ, but not WRITE to NTFS drives.) If it's in FAT format, then both Windows and OS X can read/write, but there are file size limits. One thing is for certain. OS X did NOT format or erase the drive. Something else may have happened, but not that. One thought, is this external drive powered by the USB port or is does it have its own power connection? If USB powered, is it possible to connect it to an external power supply? I'm wondering if the drive simply isn't getting enough power from the USB port. [/QUOTE]
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