Hmm... I have yet to see a USB2 compliant storage device needing any drivers for Windows XP or Vista...
What _can_ happen from time to time is that the OS acknowledge the drive, but somehow fails to attribute a drive letter, eg. "E:\". You can check if this is the situation by right-clicking "my computer", choose "manage". Then click "Disk management". This will give you an overview of all the storage volumes connected to the computer. In the list atop, there are usually drive letters in parentheses behind each volume. Check if your external drive is listed *without* any attributed drive letter. The way to amend the situation is simply to right-click the drive's listing, and choose "change drive letter..." :-) hth, Jostein 2008/9/9 Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
