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Can i do this with a Mac Machine?
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24-02-13, 04:35 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?
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24-02-13, 05:42 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.
24-02-13, 07:19 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. 
24-02-13, 09:23 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
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