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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: I think I need Mac help ... |
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A business associate of mine wants to back his hard drive up to an external so that both he & I can access it. He is Mac, I am PC. The drive is a brand new Maxtor 500gb. The drive will mount on the mac - but as "read only" - mounts on the PC with no problems. He is running the latest Mac OS - Panther, Puma, Calico - I don't know - but it's the new one.
Is there something obvious we are missing?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: Re: I think I need Mac help ... |
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| todd ellis wrote: | A business associate of mine wants to back his hard drive up to an external so that both he & I can access it. He is Mac, I am PC. The drive is a brand new Maxtor 500gb. The drive will mount on the mac - but as "read only" - mounts on the PC with no problems. He is running the latest Mac OS - Panther, Puma, Calico - I don't know - but it's the new one.
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Hi Todd,
The reason why it is likely mounting on the Mac as read only is because it is probably formatted with NTFS. OSX will only be able to read NTFS partitions and not write to them. I believe there is a third party utility that can do it, but if the hard drive is empty now I would just reformat it with FAT32 and you will be fine.
The caveat is that you will be limited to files less than 4GB in size. So, if you have any DVD images stored on your drive it could be a problem.
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Rich is correct; I've run into this before with my own equipment. Using FAT32 strips away all the Microsoft security settings so OSX can write to it.
...and the latest is "Tiger", btw. 
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todd ellis
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Thanks guys - gonna do that tomorrow.
| Quote: | | ...and the latest is "Tiger", btw. |
I knew it was some kind of pussy cat. 
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ok - I'm looking at the drive now - and it tells me that it is already FAT32. Should I reformat anyway? Could there be something in the Mac (permissions-like) prohibiting writing to this drive?
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| todd ellis wrote: | | ok - I'm looking at the drive now - and it tells me that it is already FAT32. Should I reformat anyway? Could there be something in the Mac (permissions-like) prohibiting writing to this drive? |
If you have it connected to the Mac and you right click on the drive and choose Get Info, look at the Ownership & Permissions section at the bottom. Make sure it is set to Read & Write and not greyed out or on another setting. If it is, I would format the drive using FAT32 on the Mac using Disk Utility. |
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if I format it on the mac - will i be able to see it on the pc?
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| todd ellis wrote: | | if I format it on the mac - will i be able to see it on the pc? |
As long as you use MS-DOS as the format type in Disk Utility you should. |
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