Rick Womer wrote: > Okay, computer guys, I have a question: > > I have - an iMac (G5 PPC) at home, on which I do most of my photo > work; - an HP laptop (running XP) for work, on which I would like to > do photo work while traveling; - a 250 GB portable external hard > drive, which has been connected to the Mac as a backup drive. > > My Winblows machine does not acknowledge the external drive's > existence.
Does it not even acknowledge that you've connected the device, or can it not read the drive? If it doesn't even see that you've plugged it in, you might need a driver, but I'm guessing this isn't the problem. > Is there a way to have read/write access to the external drive from > both the Mac and the PC? (not at the same time, of course...) It sounds like your drive may be formatted with a file system that windows doesn't recognize. Probably your best bet would be to get everything off that drive (dump it onto your Mac) and then repartition the external drive with one of those horrible file systems that Windoze can actually read, like FAT32 or NTFS. Your Mac can read either of those. The drive manufacturer's web site probably has specifics. -- Scott Loveless New Cumberland, PA http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
