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Mac storage hardware >> SimpleTech 250GB on both Mac and PC

by Timothy Taylor » Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:53:39 GMT

Hi all:

I am in the middle of making the switch away from PCs. I have an iMac
G5 at home (where I mostly work) and a PC in my office. I have these
SimpleTech drives at each location so when I move the PC laptop around
I can back up my data whether at home or at work. Problem is, the Mac
can't write to the SimpleTech drives, though it can read from them.
Anybody have any idea about how to mange both drives so I can backup
both machines? Or is this impossible?

Thanks.

Tim

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Mac storage hardware >> SimpleTech 250GB on both Mac and PC

by nospam » Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:40:43 GMT


In article <2005092615533916807% XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, Timothy



osx can read and write fat32, but can only read ntfs filesystems.

apparently your drive is ntfs and you will need to reformat it to fat32.
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Mac storage hardware >> SimpleTech 250GB on both Mac and PC

by shamino » Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:04:24 GMT

Timothy Taylor < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > writes:

Sounds like the disks are formatted as NTFS. Only Windows can write to
NTFS volumes. (A bit of web searching will show that nothing else can
write to NTFS. Apparently, it's not as easy as one would think to
develop a read/write driver for this file system.)

If you reformat them as FAT32, Mac OS will be able to write them. If
you don't want to lose the contents, consider a program like Partition
Magic, which should be able to convert it in-place.

-- David
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