Presuming it is a USB 2 drive ... on Windows ... -- Be sure you have the correct driver installed for it, if it needs one. -- Be sure your computer's USB port supplies enough power to run it or have an external power supply for it.
Once you're sure of those two things: Mac OS X can read and write to FAT32 volumes, which are also directly accessible to Windows XP. The built-in Windows XP disk utility will not format a FAT32 volume that large but Mac OS X's Disk Utility application will. - Copy all the data off the drive to some other location. - Run Disk Utility (in the /Applications/Utilities folder) - Select the drive - Choose the "Partition" tab - Select the file system (ms dos, IIRC) with the popup menu - Set it for one partition - Click the erase button and confirm it. Once done the volume on that drive should be read/writeable on both Mac OS X and Windows XP, presuming the two things mentioned at the top are good. Godfrey On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:20 AM, 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. > > 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...) -- 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.
