external hard drive. mac and pc. 1tb or more.?

H20polo

i need a 1tb or larger external hard drive that is compadible with mac and PC can anyone sugest a good one?? im planning on filling it with music only. thanks

Answer
You have a problem...You can't have the same hard drive with Windows and MAC at the same time, Windows can't ready MAC and vice versa.

Here the solution:

A) You buy 1 extrernal HDD 1TB or more and cut it in half 500GB/500GB(partition)
This is if you can't or don't want to buy 2 HDDs.

B) Buy 2 external HDDs 1TB or more and use the one for Windows and the other for MAC.

Suggestions for HDD:
--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBABP0010HCH-EESN MY BOOK 3.0 1TB + USB 3.0 HBA ADAPTER
It has USB2.0 and 3.0 Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAK0010HCH-EESN MY BOOK 3.0 1TB WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAU0010HBK-EESN ELEMENTS DEKSTOP 1TB Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBAAU0010HBK-EESN ELEMENTS DEKSTOP 1TB Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBABP0020HCH MY BOOK 3.0 2TB + USB 3.0 HBA ADAPTER Pre formatted for Windows

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDH2NC20000E MY BOOK WORLD EDITION II 2TB Pre formatted for MAC

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDH2NC40000E MY BOOK WORLD EDITION II 4TB Pre formatted for MAC

--WESTERN DIGITAL WDBACG0030HCH MY BOOK LIVE 3TB Pre formatted for Windows

External Hard Drive Not Readable by Mac?

lovelyduck

Hi--
I bought a new external hard drive today (I have a MacBook OS X Version 10.5.8) and i plugged it into my computer and reformatted it (to Mac OS X (Journaled) --i followed an online tutorial) and in the middle of erasing it my computer stopped and said error because it lost touch with the disk utility or something? it told me to relaunch disk utility, which i did and tried again and the same thing happened. after that, i unplugged the HD and tried to plug it back i nand a note popped up that it was unreadable by my computer. it gave me three options: eject, ignore, or initialize. i clicked initialize and it took me back to disk utilities so i tried to format it again and the same thing keeps happening.
i've tried retarting my computer, unplugging and plugging the hard drive in and nothing works. the bummer is i had the same hard drive before and i never had a problem formatting it... it's really frustrating because i have a lot of stuff to back up and i don't know what to do.. i'm terrible with computers, haha.
So if anyone who knows their way around a macbook and/or external (i have a Western Digital 3tb Elements) and could offer some insight i would really appreciate it.. thanks so mch in advance!
:)

Answer
you need to look on the apple site

i found this article which may or may not help you
either way get yourself there ...soon

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