On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Scott Loveless wrote: >> 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.
Mac OS X can read both NTFS and FAT32, but it can only write to FAT32. Windows XP's utilities will not format a 250G volume as FAT32, only NTFS. So as I wrote in my previous email, don't format the drive with Windows ... Format it with Mac OS X's Disk Utility and you'll be fine. :-) Godfrey -- 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.
