I posted a question on here in the past about hard drives. I have a 200g hard drive I purchased and put into an external case. I always had a PC.
I also have a 250g mybook drive.
then i got a macbook pro. the mybook drive works fine with going between mac and pc but I cant write to or delete anything on my 200g drive.
I was educated about why it was, I do not fully remember. But I was just going to take off what I needed on the 200g drive and could I format the drive to work on both systems? If so can someone tell me how I can do this?
It's because the MyBook drive is formatted with FAT32 and the other drive is formatted with NTFS. You'll have to take everything off the other drive and re-format it to work with the Mac.
When you re-format, use FAT32 if you want to share this drive with PCs or use HFS+ if it's only going to be used with Macs.
When you re-format, you'll erase the drive so be sure to get everything off it you want.
Yeah, Tom's got it. I decided against using FAT32 because you cannot have a single file over 4GB, needless to say I have many files that are over 4GB. Well, maybe not many, but enough to make the decision to use HFS+.
I agree with Tom also, the drive is almost certainly formatted NTFS. I just wanted to mention that if you have Partition Magic (hard drive partitioning utility for PC), you can change from NTFS to FAT32 without losing the data. If you have enough disk space to copy the contents of the 200G drive so that you can reformat it, it's not an issue. However, if you don't, then Partition Magic may be a solution.
You didn't mention which system you will be using more. If it is the Mac, then another option would be to format the drive with the Mac OS. Buy MacDrive for the PC; you will be able to the Mac formatted drive on the PC.
