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Title: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: glynblue2 on 24 February 2013, 03:35:49 pm

I have an old external hard drive (Western Digital passport) which when plugged into my Mac it is not recognised, I'm guessing this is because it has been configured for a windows based PC however I would like to access it using my Mac. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: Lazarus on 24 February 2013, 03:38:17 pm

dont listen to me - apparently Im talking bollox! :(

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: Fazerider on 24 February 2013, 04:42:44 pm

If it's not corrupted or an otherwise duff drive you should be able to read and write if it's FAT32 formatted. If it's NTFS i think there is a utility that'll let you read, but not write to it.

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: glynblue2 on 24 February 2013, 05:46:47 pm

Cheers will see what i can do to format then  :)

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: Fazerider on 24 February 2013, 06:19:32 pm

OK. I was thinking there was data on it that you might want.
On my Mac I usually format USB drives FAT32 rather than HFS, it's often a handy way to transfer large files to and from Windows boxes.

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: glynblue2 on 24 February 2013, 06:41:13 pm

 :)

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: Dead Eye on 24 February 2013, 08:23:38 pm

FAT32 is also recognised widely by Linux systems so its a very handy format to use. The drawback is that the file size limit is 4GB (minus 1 byte) - for every day use this is fine though

Title: Re: Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
Post by: simonm on 25 February 2013, 08:19:36 am

Fat, fat32 and ntfs are all recognised on osx. I'd do a chkdsk in windows.

Ntfs may not work or may only be read able in osx prior to leopard.