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  • Dwreck
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2002
    • 7362
    #1

    My Mac Book Versus My PC formated External Drive Questions

    I have a external hard drive question..

    I got a external hard drive that was orginally used on my PC.. I got a new one for Christmas and now I want to use the *OLD* one for my Mac and brought it to the office

    When I plug it in to my mac it loads up fine but I can't transfer files just play them.

    I guess it's set to read only? Can change it from this Mac to turn read only off? is so how? or do I have to bring the harddrive home and change the read only settings from my pc?

    Please advise
    Derek *Dwreck* Smout
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    • DeanCapture
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      • Dec 2002
      • 9275
      #2
      Originally posted by Dwreck
      I have a external hard drive question..

      I got a external hard drive that was orginally used on my PC.. I got a new one for Christmas and now I want to use the *OLD* one for my Mac and brought it to the office

      When I plug it in to my mac it loads up fine but I can't transfer files just play them.

      I guess it's set to read only? Can change it from this Mac to turn read only off? is so how? or do I have to bring the harddrive home and change the read only settings from my pc?

      Please advise
      Hi D, I believe that the hard drive that you used for your PC has to be reformatted to "Mac Journaled" before your Mac will recognize it as a read/write drive.
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        • CrkMStanz
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2008
          • 517
          #3
          Originally posted by Dwreck
          I have a external hard drive question..

          I got a external hard drive that was orginally used on my PC.. I got a new one for Christmas and now I want to use the *OLD* one for my Mac and brought it to the office

          When I plug it in to my mac it loads up fine but I can't transfer files just play them.

          I guess it's set to read only? Can change it from this Mac to turn read only off? is so how? or do I have to bring the harddrive home and change the read only settings from my pc?

          Please advise
          If you can read the files you can copy them.

          copy the files to the MAC (or backup the removable drive in any preferred manner)
          reformat the drive using the MAC OS

          you should then be able to achive full functionality on the removable drive


          hope that helps

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            • brandonstills
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              • Dec 2007
              • 1964
              #4
              MacFUSE is free and allows Mac to write to NTFS partitions. Also, if you decide to format for Mac there is a PC program called MacDrive.

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                • Serge Litehead
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                  • Dec 2002
                  • 5190
                  #5
                  if you were able to write on it previously from PC it's definitely not set to read-only.
                  Macs and NTFS don't play well together as far as i know. when you want to use any removable media on both Macs and PCs it recommended to format it with FAT32
                  Last edited by Serge Litehead; 12-31-2010, 12:00 PM.

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                    • Dwreck
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                      • Nov 2002
                      • 7362
                      #6
                      Originally posted by DeanCapture
                      Hi D, I believe that the hard drive that you used for your PC has to be reformatted to "Mac Journaled" before your Mac will recognize it as a read/write drive.
                      Hey Dean,

                      How would I do that?
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                        • JustDaveXxx
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                          • Feb 2005
                          • 4111
                          #7
                          Originally posted by brandonstills
                          MacFUSE is free and allows Mac to write to NTFS partitions. Also, if you decide to format for Mac there is a PC program called MacDrive.
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                            • DeanCapture
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                              • Dec 2002
                              • 9275
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Dwreck
                              Hey Dean,

                              How would I do that?
                              Be sure to save any files that you may need on that drive. Reformatting will erase the drive.

                              Here's how I do it...

                              Last edited by DeanCapture; 12-31-2010, 12:58 PM.
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