At 6:28 AM -0500 10/9/08, Kris Tilford posted:
>
> Did you repair the file system or not?
As I posted, it wasn't my external drive. It was my neighbour's drive
that had worked without a problem via NAS and USB on Vista and
10.4.11. The Vista machine is wired to the router, the iMac is
wireless. The drive is formatted FAT-32. Prior to upgrading to
Leopard, he would occasionally bring the drive physically to the iMac
for a USB connection. He had even brought the drive here to transfer
files with my G5/10.4.11.
After upgrading to Leopard he had a lot of files to transfer back
(having nuked and paved) so he physically brought the drive to the
iMac and moved the files via USB. When he took the drive back to the
router/NAS setup, he had no problem with either Vista or the iMac
being able to access the drive.
Then he ran the most recent *Leopard Security Update* on the iMac. As
it happened, he had a lot of files to transfer from the external
drive so he physically brought the drive to the iMac for USB transfer
from the drive to the iMac. When he took the drive back to the
router/NAS setup, the drive would not mount on Vista. He called,
upset. I was at his place when he went USB to Vista, numerous
restarts, still no mounting. We took the drive back to Leopard, it
mounted via USB. We verified the drive via DiskUtility, couldn't
verify permissions because it's FAT-32 (or at least that's what
DiskUtility was telling us.) Back to the router/NAS = no mount.
Vista/USB = no mount. He said f*ckit and transferred the files he
needed for Vista wirelessly from the iMac overnight. By the time I
talked with him the following evening, he'd reformatted the
externally drive for Mac and is using it solely via USB on the iMac.
He's bought a second drive for Vista. When I called him last night to
verify the sequence of events, he added that his FAT-32 formatted
thumb drive is also refusing to mount on Vista *after* he uses it on
Leopard. The thumb drive had no problem being seen by Vista prior to
the most recent Leopard Security Update.
Steve R
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