500GB sata drives
selling off my bare drives. a girl in work want to know if she got a caddy could she use one of these drives for both a mac laptop and a pc laptop. I was unsure. i think i reformatted in fat32 thought it might have been NTFS.
can a mac read a pc hard drive and vice versa? will just be used for pictures and music |
i use a standard 1tb WD external hard drive works on mac, windows/wii / xbox etc
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Originally Posted by Scooby Soon!
(Post 10205446)
i use a standard 1tb WD external hard drive works on mac, windows/wii / xbox etc
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Mac OSX will natively recognise NTFS formatted disks, but will only mount in read-only mode. Software can be used to allow the mac to write to NTFS disks if required.
OSX will work happily with FAT32 disks, but bear in mind there's a filesize limit (approx 4GB) with this filesystem. Another option would be Fatx (or xFat) but would require a later version of windows (Vista or 7) in order for it to work properly. I don't know about XP..... |
For Mac HDD must be in FAT32,for writing and reading
If you want use NTFS HDD on Mac you can use NTFS-3G or MacFuse,which can allow you read/write on NTFS disc on Mac without the formatting to FAT32. Jura |
ok thanks for that
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you selling many ?
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Originally Posted by jura11
(Post 10205479)
For Mac HDD must be in FAT32,for writing and reading
If you want use NTFS HDD on Mac you can use NTFS-3G or MacFuse,which can allow you read/write on NTFS disc on Mac without the formatting to FAT32. Jura |
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