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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1653580" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I don't know why you keep saying this. I read that the first time. And the second time. Neither of those are Disk Utility. Do you even know what that is? (EDIT: What are you talking about anyway? What makes you think a drive shows up in "System"? What do you even mean by "System"? Are you talking about the folder on your boot drive? The drive wouldn't show up there. Are you just looking at the "Startup Disk" in System Preferences? That only shows partitions with a bootable installation of OS X, or any other bootable OS)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>FAT drives most certainly are compatible with Windows (it is Microsoft's own file system!), but how it's formatted is irrelevant. Barring a hardware failure/incompatibility of some sort, any drive should show up in Disk Utility regardless of how it is formatted. Disk Utility is what you use to reformat it if need be. Again, if the drive is not showing up in Disk Utility, then there is a hardware failure, or some incompatibility on a firmware level in the drive itself. I am absolutely not kidding about the latter. We spent days trying to solve another member's problem with an external hard drive, and as it turned out, that drive was very specifically compatible with Windows and only Windows XP for that matter. Not even Win 7 onwards. It was one of the more bizarre things I've seen, but the documentation/evidence on that was pretty clear once I discovered it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That doesn't tell us which EXACT model you have. And I do mean EXACT! All you've given is the brand and capacity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1653580, member: 38864"] I don't know why you keep saying this. I read that the first time. And the second time. Neither of those are Disk Utility. Do you even know what that is? (EDIT: What are you talking about anyway? What makes you think a drive shows up in "System"? What do you even mean by "System"? Are you talking about the folder on your boot drive? The drive wouldn't show up there. Are you just looking at the "Startup Disk" in System Preferences? That only shows partitions with a bootable installation of OS X, or any other bootable OS) FAT drives most certainly are compatible with Windows (it is Microsoft's own file system!), but how it's formatted is irrelevant. Barring a hardware failure/incompatibility of some sort, any drive should show up in Disk Utility regardless of how it is formatted. Disk Utility is what you use to reformat it if need be. Again, if the drive is not showing up in Disk Utility, then there is a hardware failure, or some incompatibility on a firmware level in the drive itself. I am absolutely not kidding about the latter. We spent days trying to solve another member's problem with an external hard drive, and as it turned out, that drive was very specifically compatible with Windows and only Windows XP for that matter. Not even Win 7 onwards. It was one of the more bizarre things I've seen, but the documentation/evidence on that was pretty clear once I discovered it. That doesn't tell us which EXACT model you have. And I do mean EXACT! All you've given is the brand and capacity. [/QUOTE]
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