William
I have a western digital portable hard drive that I've used to back up my hard drive. I typically use it on my mac. It shows up fine on the mac and is useable. However, I'm now trying to transfer files from my mac to pc and the pc is not recognizing the hard drive. It appears in the disk management, but without an assigned letter. It does not appear to give me the option to assign a letter either. Any way I can do this without reformatting the drive? Sometimes I really hate apple.......... this only helps build that case.
Answer
What format was done when you initally setup the drive? If you used FAT32 it should be (notice that should be) readable by either machine. Anyother format and you have a problem. Here is Apples information on moving data.... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1408?viewlocale=en_US
Of course that is from PC to MAC not MAC to PC but the answer is basically the same.
You can "network" the two machines then move data from the "shared" USB drive to the PC from the network share! That would be the easiest at this point.
PS - Don't really blame Apple or the PC the same issue applies with Linux, or any other operating system these days. Sometimes even early PC to new systems have the same type issues, I really never understood that one!
What format was done when you initally setup the drive? If you used FAT32 it should be (notice that should be) readable by either machine. Anyother format and you have a problem. Here is Apples information on moving data.... http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1408?viewlocale=en_US
Of course that is from PC to MAC not MAC to PC but the answer is basically the same.
You can "network" the two machines then move data from the "shared" USB drive to the PC from the network share! That would be the easiest at this point.
PS - Don't really blame Apple or the PC the same issue applies with Linux, or any other operating system these days. Sometimes even early PC to new systems have the same type issues, I really never understood that one!
How can I make my CD receiver play music from a WD portable hard drive?
LUX
I have a Sony XplÅd that has a usb port. I have a WD portable hard drive of 500 GB. Is there a certain way that the music folder must be arranged or named in order for it to be played? All the songs are in mp3 format. Plase help, I know that it can play other mp3 players. And I read from a user comment that his receiver can play some music files from his portable hard drive.
Thanks for helping.
Answer
Well, you do not seem to understand how computers and hard drives work. The computer has software in it that will send signals to the hard drive to retrieve the music files that are stored there and then loads them into memory. Then an application program like iTunes will read that file and convert it into digital sound signals which are then sent to a digital to analog converter and are then sent out over a wire to the speakers where it comes out as the sound that you hear. Your Sony Xplod (CD receiver) has software that receives digital music files that are send over the USB from the CD player and then stores then converts it into sound so it will play the music. You see the software in your Sony does not have the same software that the computer has in it. Actually, you Sony does not even have software but firmware. Anyway the firmware/software, the logic that controls how the data is moved and manipulated in the computer is what allows it work work the way it does. The firmware in your hard drive knows how to communicate with your computer but does not know how to communicate with your Sony. The Sony knows how to communicate with your CD player but, was not programmed to be able to retrieve files from an external hard drive and play them. So, it's kind of like one of these situation where you really can't get there from here, you know what I mean?
Well, you do not seem to understand how computers and hard drives work. The computer has software in it that will send signals to the hard drive to retrieve the music files that are stored there and then loads them into memory. Then an application program like iTunes will read that file and convert it into digital sound signals which are then sent to a digital to analog converter and are then sent out over a wire to the speakers where it comes out as the sound that you hear. Your Sony Xplod (CD receiver) has software that receives digital music files that are send over the USB from the CD player and then stores then converts it into sound so it will play the music. You see the software in your Sony does not have the same software that the computer has in it. Actually, you Sony does not even have software but firmware. Anyway the firmware/software, the logic that controls how the data is moved and manipulated in the computer is what allows it work work the way it does. The firmware in your hard drive knows how to communicate with your computer but does not know how to communicate with your Sony. The Sony knows how to communicate with your CD player but, was not programmed to be able to retrieve files from an external hard drive and play them. So, it's kind of like one of these situation where you really can't get there from here, you know what I mean?
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