It worked! I now have a bilingual external drive. Thanks, Godders!
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 9/9/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Mac, PC, and portable external drive > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 3:56 PM > 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. -- 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.
