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Jul 27, 2010 at 03:45 PM
Jul 27, 2010 at 03:45 PM
If you have a Windows computer then you can't write to a Mac formatted hard disk unless you have special software. Macs can read Fat32 formatted hard drives written from a Windows computer but not NTFS files. You can use Windows 7 to reformat the hard drive to Fat32. Just don't format the C drive because you loose all the data.
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Carl - Jul 27, 2010 8:57pm BST
Thanks for the response however, I don't want to reformat the drive.. I was just wondering if there was a way I can tell how the drive I have is formatted. I pulled it from storage and I'm not sure if the last person who used it used a Mac or a PC to write to it. For example, I'm on a PC now and I can see the files that's on it however I can't open them.. Does this mean that it's formatted for a Mac? I hope I'm making sense... Thanks for the help!
Carl
Thanks for the response however, I don't want to reformat the drive.. I was just wondering if there was a way I can tell how the drive I have is formatted. I pulled it from storage and I'm not sure if the last person who used it used a Mac or a PC to write to it. For example, I'm on a PC now and I can see the files that's on it however I can't open them.. Does this mean that it's formatted for a Mac? I hope I'm making sense... Thanks for the help!
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Jul 27, 2010 at 04:12 PM
Jul 27, 2010 at 04:12 PM
This works for Vista (it should be similar for Windows 7)
Right click "my Computer" then select "Manage" and then "Disk Management" you should get a screen showing your info for all the hard drives on the system.
Right click "my Computer" then select "Manage" and then "Disk Management" you should get a screen showing your info for all the hard drives on the system.
Jul 27, 2010 at 03:57 PM
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