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External Hard Drive question
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Found a good deal on this hdd. Any idea why this one would say PC only, but another Maxtor says PC & Mac? I went to the maxtor site and it says the same thing. I'm sure this will work with my macbook; I'd just like a little confirmation.
http://tinyurl.com/p5qvj
Cheers....
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The Maxtor site says that the drive in this box is preformatted for NTFS. THAT is a definite limitation! OS X can read NTFS, but cannot write to it. I don't know if Disk Utility can reformat an external drive from NTFS into HFS+ or some other OS X-compatible format. That would definitely be the issue with this device.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Originally Posted by ghporter
The Maxtor site says that the drive in this box is preformatted for NTFS. THAT is a definite limitation! OS X can read NTFS, but cannot write to it. I don't know if Disk Utility can reformat an external drive from NTFS into HFS+ or some other OS X-compatible format. That would definitely be the issue with this device.
Where do you see that? Think my PC could reformat it to FAT?
Thanks for the help, ghporter.
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Disk utility shouldn't have any problems reformatting it as HFS (if you're Mac only) or FAT32 (if you need to access it from both platforms).
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Thanks mduell-I don't have any experience in reformatting foreign disks with DU.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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