davey..
I have a portable hard drive but havent opened it yet. I have a macbook but always borrow files from my other friends computers who all have pc's. I want to know can I connect my HD to my friends PC and then transfer them to my mac. Or will they be in a different format? and will my hd connect to my PS3 too?
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Generally speaking,, Windows cannot read or write to a hard disk formatted for a Mac without third party software, although the Mac can read and write to a Windows formatted disk. If you want to transfer files, I suggest you skip the connecting of hard disks and have them send you those files via email if they're small enough, or via a service such as DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/) or YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com/).
Generally speaking,, Windows cannot read or write to a hard disk formatted for a Mac without third party software, although the Mac can read and write to a Windows formatted disk. If you want to transfer files, I suggest you skip the connecting of hard disks and have them send you those files via email if they're small enough, or via a service such as DropBox (https://www.dropbox.com/) or YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com/).
Mac Portable Hard Drive Help?
h8thecause
I recently bought a SimpleTech portable hard drive. Its a 160gb if that matters. I am working on trying to backup my music by dragging and dropping it on there, but when I plug it in and try to drag, it does not allow me. When I view the info for the portable hard drive, the sharing and permissions says: "I can only read". How would I fix this?
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Check whether the hard disk has "Write Lock". If it is so make sure it is not write locked.
Make sure that the Hard Drive is not formatted as NTFS. Mac does not support writing data to a NTFS volume. Just right click the mounted volume in Finder and select "Get Info". In the Info window check for the "Format:". In case the format is NTFS, it shows "Windows NT Filesystem". [ http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/attachments/maccar/40138d1172094097-using-external-hd-between-mac-pc-picture-1.png ].
If it is so, your Mac will not allow you to write data to that volume.
There are 2 solutions :
1. Make Mac write data to NTFS volume : Install 3rd party NTFS support for Mac. Softwares like "Paragon NTFS" [ http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ ] allows you to write data to NTFS volume.
2. Reformat the hard disk to Mac Compatible format : This will require you to erase the entire data present in the disk. You can use Disk Utility to reformat the hard disk. If you are not sharing it with Windows PC, you can format it with format as "HFS+" (referred as "Mac OS Extended" in disk utility). In case you intend to share it with Windows "Fat32" will be the format I would recommend. Remember Fat32 does not support files larger than 4GB.
I would recommend the second solution.
Check whether the hard disk has "Write Lock". If it is so make sure it is not write locked.
Make sure that the Hard Drive is not formatted as NTFS. Mac does not support writing data to a NTFS volume. Just right click the mounted volume in Finder and select "Get Info". In the Info window check for the "Format:". In case the format is NTFS, it shows "Windows NT Filesystem". [ http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/attachments/maccar/40138d1172094097-using-external-hd-between-mac-pc-picture-1.png ].
If it is so, your Mac will not allow you to write data to that volume.
There are 2 solutions :
1. Make Mac write data to NTFS volume : Install 3rd party NTFS support for Mac. Softwares like "Paragon NTFS" [ http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ ] allows you to write data to NTFS volume.
2. Reformat the hard disk to Mac Compatible format : This will require you to erase the entire data present in the disk. You can use Disk Utility to reformat the hard disk. If you are not sharing it with Windows PC, you can format it with format as "HFS+" (referred as "Mac OS Extended" in disk utility). In case you intend to share it with Windows "Fat32" will be the format I would recommend. Remember Fat32 does not support files larger than 4GB.
I would recommend the second solution.
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