External Drive/ Ntsf or Mac?? Solved/Closed

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Hello,

A vendor requested that I send him a Mac formatted external drive and I can't tell if the one I'm going to send is formatted for windows or Mac. Is there someway I can check other than going into the properties or worse, attempting to reformat myself? The drive is a NexStar.3 External 3.5'' used for holding Bluray content...

Thanks,
Carl



Configuration: Windows 7 / Internet Explorer 8.0

xpcman · Answer

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.

Good Luck

Carl · Answer

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

xpcman · Answer

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.

Carl · Answer

Thank you very much!!! This works for me-

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