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help with external hd...
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
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hey guys, I am a newly convert to the ibook and it is great. The thing is that I had a pc and I trasfered stuff onto my hd such as files and music. It is a Maxtor II 1 touch model, 200 gb. I use it to preview items because it say that I can. But what I wanted to do was to be able to write on the external hd and save my info... SO I can read info from it, but I can't copy stuff onto it... Is there a way around that like a hack? thanks 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Chicago
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No, your drive is formatted in NTFS.
The only option you have is to copy all your files to another computer then use your Mac to format the drive into FAT32. You can do this using Disk Utility located in your applications folder /Utilities.
Once the drive is FAT32 both computers will be able to read the drive. However single files larger than 4GBs will not copy to the drive.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Helsinki
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what's the difference in prestanda when using fat32 and the mac's standard formatting stuff.
I bought a hard drive that i haven't started using yet. I plan to use it for my iBook. (i now have a pc, but i can copy files via dvd also)
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Mac Elite
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If you plan on using the HD with many computers FAT32 is ideal because both PC and Mac can both natively read it without extra software.
Mac can't write to NTFS at all, PC can read/write HFS with some help.
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