On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Nestamicky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought I'd run this here quick, as I'm sure someone here would have > wanted to do same. > > I have a rather large HD that's formatted in NTFS and has tons of data > on it that I'd like installed as a secondary drive in my Sawtooth. > Question is: if I pop it in, as secondary, would it need to be > reinitialized with the possibility of loosing my data? Is there a tool > out there that would mount it without problems of loosing data, or > reformatting? Thanks a lot! >
___________________________________________________ Even with an interpretive software I do not recommend using this drive as a mac drive UNLESS you reformat it for the mac. You will always run the risk of some situation that leads to the Mac ask to reformat the drive. It will always naturally happen when you are caught off guard and disoriented as to which drive the mac wants to reformat and you may indeed inadvertently lose your data. Much easier to save off the data and reformat the drive to Fat 32 if you need to retain inter-platform usability I ruined a drive in this way years ago taking it to a University computer to do some work. I mistook the disk the OS asked to format as the blank DVD I had inserted into the optical drive at the same time.. Especially since the requester did not specify the drive in question. Another time I had asked a media department IT to put some full QT Pro studio files onto my disk forgetting it was in NTFS. Since he was a paid tech in the TV control room and trained in a department where PCs and high cost Macs were side by side I assumed that he knew how to handle format differences and that the department had a long history of knowledge Of dealing with platform integration solutions. After all this is a large state university entrusted with training the minions of industry and commerce for the realities of the workplace in the larger non academic world. I accepted he was versed in Mac- Pc negotiations. I lost a $ 150.00 HD that day. Never to be formatted in anything again. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
