Rick. Just curious, as you said you had data on the Windows drive. Did you copy the data some were, format the drive to Win/Mac then put the data on.
I have a full Maxtor that was just a Windows external to, Dave On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
