Usually you can only format local drives. Why do you need to format it
if you can already access it? You can format a drive on the Mac but it
only does FAT and exFAT, not NTFS. I guess I missed that last part in
your original email that you wanted to access the drive on your Mac from
your PC to format it, not to access the files. I know with laptops you
could boot up in Target mode by holding down the T key which turned the
laptop into a very expensive external firewire hard drive. You could
then hook it up to a PC's firewire port and do whatever you want to the
internal drive. Generally formatting will always require local hard
wired access to the hard drive for the machine that is doing the formatting.
CB
On 7/7/11 12:10 PM, Georges Zaynoun wrote:
I managed to see the bootcamp drive in my computer from the pc running
xp among the drives after sharing it thanks to your instructions but
is there anything additional I can do so I can format it remotely from
the connected windows pc?
Original message:
You can find that in the Preference Network pane on your Mac. The Status
will say Connected and then continue on to read the IP address. It's
also repeated further down after the text "IP Address".
CB
On 7/6/11 5:58 PM, Georges Zaynoun wrote:
Ok, then how do I know which address did the mac get from my router?
Thanks.
Original message:
Over a network you can mount Mac file shares on your PC. On the Mac
you'll need to turn on File Sharing in the Sharing Preference and
go to
Options to turn on Share files and folders using SMB and then enable
which accounts on your mac are allowed in from Windows. Once all
that is
done from your windows side you can just connect a new network drive
with your Mac's address. So on the PC you would connect to something
like 192.168.xx.yy\username and then chose to connect using a
different
user name and it will prompt you for the mac username/password. So my
username is just cblouch so I connect to //192.168.xx.yy/cblouch where
xx and yy are my actual IP address and the username is cblouch with
whatever the password is I use on the Mac. After that you should
have a
new drive letter and be able to access all the files and folders in
your
username folder on your Mac.
CB
On 7/6/11 12:32 PM, Georges Zaynoun wrote:
Hello!
Can I connect my mmmac to the pc and see the drives and partitions on
the mac from the pc?
If yes what do I need to do this?
I want to format from a windows machine my bootcamp partition as
ntfs,
thanks.
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