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My external harddrive won't show my files

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dazedandconfused - Oct 31, 2011 at 10:46 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Oct 31, 2011 at 11:16 PM
Hello,
I had my external hard drive connected to my friends mac to put some music on, and now when I plug it into my pc it won't show any of the files, his or the ones i had on it originally. It still shows all the memory is filled that my files took up and I tried showing hidden files. If anyone knows what went wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Oct 31, 2011 at 11:07 PM
The Mac and PC use different file formats. If he reformatted your drive using Mac formatting then you will not be able to read it.
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dazedandconfused
Oct 31, 2011 at 11:12 PM
any way to fix it so i can at least read my files again?
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Oct 31, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Try the free software at www.easeus.com - it might be able to recover the old partition.

Good Luck
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Oct 31, 2011 at 11:16 PM
Next time make sure that you have a partition formatted in FAT32. That is the only common format that the Mac and PC can read/write.
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