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Hard Drive not showing up on my laptop

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Samantha - May 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - May 18, 2010 at 04:00 PM
Hello,

I recently got some movies off a friend.. he had a mac computers and so when i put the hard drive back into my laptop it isnt working. I have an HP laptop. You can see that it is there, but it isnt! Its like the settings have been changed and so it wont work, need help urgently!!!


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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
May 18, 2010 at 04:00 PM
Perhaps the hard drive was reformatted by the Mac. To share data between a Mac and a PC the hard drive must be formatted in FAT32. The PC can't see a Mac partitioned hard drive and the Mac can't write to a NTFS formatted hard drive. Search this site for "FAT 32 format" to find a program able to format large drives using FAT32.

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