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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.
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
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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