Questions & Answers for: SimpleTech mac and pc

...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 ...

...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 ...

...NTFS. simple just format it for PC first then it should work for both if you format it for MAC first it will not work on the PC simple PC are horrible for accessing files mac's are more user ...

...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 ...

...mac. The mac recognizes it so I don't know what to do. Connect it either to a Mac or to a PC, and then "format" the drive, to completely "clear" it out. hard drive needs defragging to re generate ...

...pc and the mac can use - best is FAT32. In your case the file system that the mac put on the disk is incompatible with the pc. Make sure the files you want to move are still on the mac (if not copy ...

...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 ...

...PC in NTFS file format then the MAC cannot read data off this hard drive. The FIX.. Connect the USB external hard drive to a Windows computer and copy your data off this hard drive to the computer. ...

...in Left Column of DU Window Use Drive Utility to format & test the drive. Use the Mac OS Extended (Journled) if using with Mac files or FAT 32 if swapping data from PC to Mac & back. Good ...