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...PC has. A mac can write PC files and mac files. PC's typically are not vice versa in writing to a mac hard disk. Only way around this one is to format the drive to be a PC drive. Then the mac and the ...

...PC or Mac and we will take it from there not true the simple drive comes as a NTFS which a mac can read if not edit. and He tried it on both a mac and a PC and neither worked. I'm having similar ...

...MAC and PC you will need to re-format the drive to be compatible. You can do this by going to disk utilities and selecting "the drive" (not the untitled volume). You will then select "erase" from the ...

...Mac into the harddrive. Help Were you using this on a PC? it may be using Fat or NTFS. If it's seeing the drive and you can't use it, it may be the filing system, I believe macs use a different one ...

...your Mac computer. Take the external drive to a PC computer, and "reformat" it, using "quick format". Take the external drive back your Mac computer, and write all the "saved" files onto the

..."simple" has NTFS format to acheive the MAX speed. In order to be compatible between PC and MAC and other the external devices like DVD player with USB input , the disk should be reformated to

...PC, the Mac will be able to read from the drive, but will not be able to write to the disc. To format it so that it will work cross-platform with both Macs and PCs, you will need to format it FAT32, ...

...mac to pc hi - have a mac formatted external hard drive that i need to repurpose for use with a Windows 7 laptop. Unable to locate a utility to reformat the external hdd and make it work with my ...

...PC. If you plan to use a Mac-formatted hard drive only with computers running Mac OS, you can leave it formatted as it comes from the factory. However, if you plan to use your hard drive with ...

...Mac or PC for that matter to back up to same external hard drive. Each will be identified with its name. If you are using two Macs its better for each of them to have different user name. Even if you ...