Hi Ronni and Sue
Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was kind
of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only twigged a
short while ago!!
re the usb drives, I was amazed to see such a large drive being usb
powered now. Im going to take my MB in tomorrow and just plug it in
and see if I can drag a couple of files across. Not bad value at under
$200 for 500gb!!
thanks again
regards
chris
On 26/05/2009, at 1:57 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:
Hi Chris, I have several small USB drives, and a larger one. I never
bother with formatting them, just plug them in and start using them.
You can, as Ronni said, reformat them, but as far as I know, they
are all Mac compatible, whether they say so or not. Susan.
On 26/05/2009, at 1:39 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Chris,
Re: you not receiving WAMUG emails, have you checked that your ISP
is not blocking any emails?
Re: The External USB Harddrives. In Disk Utility, what format it is
already formatted to?
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility ...
Are you wanting to use the external drive on Windows, or with Time
Machine, or just on your Mac?
For Windows, you would need to format it MS-DOS (FAT)
For Time Machine & Mac Computers you need to Format Mac OS X
Extended (Journaled) & Partition
GUID Partition Table or Apple Partition Map.
(GUID for Intel Macs or any Mac running 10.4 or later or Apple
Partition Map for PowerPC Macs running any version of Mac OS X)
Cheers,
Ronni
On 26/05/2009, at 1:06 PM, Chris Burton wrote:
Hi wamuggers
I dont seem to be receiving many emails from the group and are not
sure why. I have had dramas with my isp, oceanbroadband down here
in busso over the last month or so.
I have a quick question regarding the small usb harddrives. I
looked at a couple of 500gb drives at hardly's this morning and
neither of them mentioned being compatable with Mac OS. The
seagate in particular had no info at all. Will that be a problem
at all, or should I just plug it in and use it? I thought I might
have to format in OS X?
kind regards to all
chris
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