every time i plug it , it doesnt show up on the desktop !!
2006-08-04 02:42:50 · 9 answers · asked by crazzy_em 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Your USB hard drive is probably formatted in NTFS " Windows XP", native format. If you want to use it with OSX and Windows you must format it as Fat 32. Just remember to back up any data you want to keep before reformatting the drive
2006-08-04 03:06:42 · answer #1 · answered by Albert F 5 · 10⤊ 0⤋
You may not be able to use the Flash drive with both Mac and windows OS. Though some of the Flash drives do work with both the OS unknowingly.
Primarily the flash drives may not work on both the OSs' as Mac uses a HFS file system whereas Windows uses NTFS or FAT file system. However on a Mac machine you can format your flash drive by selecting FAT for Windows OS, using the inbuilt DISK UTILITY tool available in Mac OS which may have a possibility for you to use it both on Mac and windows. Not otherwise.
However some flash drives do work with both the OS without it being formatted with a Mac/windows specific file system. In Apple terms, it may or may not work but Apple have not tested it.
2006-08-04 07:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it depends. If this is a flash drive, it should be compatible with OSX because all flash drives are FAT only (unless you formatted it to NTFS which is not easy to do on flash drives). Now, if it is a hard drive, Mac OSX can read but not write to NTFS volumes. I'm not aware of any workarounds for this. I suppose you could partition the drive and format one partition as FAT. Otherwise, either you use it with your PC or you reformat it and use it with your Mac only. But then you won't be able to use it with your PC at all. Note that formatting from NTFS to FAT32 is not recommended and usually requires a low-level format, this is not something I recommend doing within Windows because it will work and destroy your data in the process or it will not work and still end up destroying your data. Just FYI, moving from FAT32 to NTFS is easy but as I said, the opposite is not true at all.
2006-08-04 03:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah you could partition an exterior HDD utilising disk application. as quickly as you're there, click on your exterior HDD then an factor window could desire to instruct some thing at says "partition" and on the drop down menu choose "2" quite of the "a million". it is going to then chop up into 2 aspects. From there go with a partition for the Mac, call it "Mac" and make specific it is in the Mac format. For the homestead windows call it "homestead windows" and ensure you go with the astounding format for homestead windows. as quickly as you notice it, all of it is wise, believe me.
2016-11-03 21:09:47 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends, new usb/firewire supports the two platforms but you need to check the driver support center, or you may need to format the driver for mac
2006-08-04 02:50:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can if your hard drive support both OS.
2006-08-04 05:36:36 · answer #6 · answered by Flash 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello my friend,
I'm not very sure it can detected or not.You can try it because I'm also don't know the driver can detect it or not.However,hope you will lucky.
2006-08-04 03:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by johnlee871231 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you might not be able too. Check the manufacturers website, maybe there is a driver or something.
2006-08-04 02:48:18 · answer #8 · answered by someDumbAmerican 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought you could... why dont you call customer service. Try another way of puling it up if you know one
2006-08-04 02:47:40 · answer #9 · answered by Capricorn82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋