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External Hard Drive

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OutGolfing

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Mar 5, 2007
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I have an external hard drive that I use on my PC at work. Is it compatible with a Mac? My Mac recognizes it but I can't transfer anything to it or from it.
 
I am not sure how we would know if it was compatible, you mention the model of neither the Drive nor the Mac.

If the Drive is formatted NTFS, there is no way the Mac can write to it.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
 
If you want to use an external hard drive on both a MAC and a PC then it would need to be formatted as FAT32.

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]
 
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