On May 18, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On May 18, 2010, at 6:41 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > >> On May 18, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Nestamicky wrote: >> >>> On 18/05/10 7:04 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >>>> But since this is a 32FAT I'm afraid to do any thing like that as to maybe >>>> make the drive unusable. >>> Why can't you just simply copy the content elsewhere, and reform that drive. >>> >> Well the drive doesn't belong to me and it's from a PC I have no way or >> desire t check to see if it is >> OK after I did something like that. This is their only backup drive. > > Are you SURE it's FAT32? Mac read, but cannot write to NTFS volumes without > additional software. > > It's a Seagate FreeAgent "Master Boot Record" "Windows NT Filesystem" It probably has some kind of backup software that keeps someone from changing the content. I asume that any windows drive is FAT32 because when I move iTunes for people with widows I always have to to the media transfer with a FAT32 device.
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