Re: How do I get a Mac format HD to recognise on PC & vice versa?

[Martin Quinn]

Thanks guys for all the posts.

I guess I'll format my spare Ext HD FAT 32 and that solves that until Apple
fix the NTFS prob in the next OS

cheers again,

Martin

"Marc Wielage" > wrote in message
...
> On Aug 2, 2004, Martin Quinn > commented:
>
> > We tried to use a NTFS formatted external hard drive
> > with USB and FireWire connections but it seems that the MAC can't read
it
> > and I'm told the PC won't read the MAC.
> >--------------------------------snip----------------------------------<
>
> The former is true, but not the latter. At the moment, neither Mac OS9 or
> OSX can write to NTFS-formatted drives. You can read Apple's statement
about
> it here:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320
>
> I'm told that the next version of Mac OSX (10.3.5) will have some fixes
that
> will make the OS work better with NTFS. They're very much aware of the
> problem, and apparently it's also a problem with various flavors of Unix
> (including some Linux systems).
>
> As long as you use a FAT-32 drive, that will work with the Mac, no
problem.
>
> --MFW
> [remove the extra M above for email]
>
>

[Lorin David Schultz]

"Martin Quinn" > wrote in message
...
>
> Is there any translators/bridge software we can get to
> let the MAC read the PC files and transfer them then
> to the MAC (& vice versa).



The Mac will read a PC drive formatted as FAT32, but not NTFS.

The PC can be made to read/write to Mac drives with MacDrive:

You can get details here: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive5/

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