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The USB external hard drive that I want to give to my daughter is called
either 500 GB or 465 GB, depending on who is doing the calling.
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At 7:29 PM -0400 6/13/09, Robert Carroll wrote:
My daughter has a MacBook Pro but no external drive for backup. I
thought that I would give her one of my external USB hard drives for
the purpose, but I have previously formatted it as a NTFS to work
with my PC. Is it possible for her to
Robert,
You should be able to format it by using Disk Utility (it
is included with the Mac OS) which is found in the Utilities folder
which is found in the Applications (Applications - Utilities -Disk
Utility). That will also tell you what size it will be. It should be no
problem
Get here a combo FireWire/USB drive enclosure and put whatever HD you want inside.
Enclosures start at around $25. Don't rely on just USB. If you want to use it for backup
with TimeMachine, I think it has to be formatted as a Mac drive [Disk Utility].
I have one of mine formatted FAT32 to use
It is amazing how much bad information is out there.
You got good information here. Let me add that while the Mac can
handle non-Mac formats, it is much more efficient writing to a Mac-
formatted drive. I have seen the Mac choke when writing multiple GBs
to a FAT-formatted drive. Format the
