I have Fantom Drives 160 GB Firewire Titanium Hard Drive 7200rpm-TFDF16072. Orginally, I purchased it for my MAC. I formatted it on a MAC and used it. Now I want to share the hard drive with my windows computer, but I have a ton of data on there, so I don't want to do anything to risk loosing the data. Any suggestions?
2006-08-25 06:13:22 · 8 answers · asked by mbtafan 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Reformat with the FAT-32 file system. If you do it on your Mac, open up Disk Utility (Applications > Utilitiies), select erase (or partition) and select "MS-DOS" as your format. It will automatically format in either FAT-16 or FAT-32, depending on the size of your disk (greater than 4 GB will be FAT-32).
2006-08-25 15:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by nathan75932 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd recommend networking the two computers together and turning on Windows Sharing, under Sharing in the Mac's System Preferences panel. Your PC won't know the difference.
If you prefer to physically move the hard drive to the Windows system (for example, if you need the extra speed), MacDrive 6 ($49.95) by MediaFour will let your Windows PC read and write Mac disks.
2006-09-01 02:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by G. Whilikers 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually the manufacture should have some type of program for Windows to access the drive. Check your CD's and manufacturer to see if it does.
But if you still have your mac, network the two computers, back up the data and then reformat the drive so windows can use if that's what you want.
2006-08-25 13:17:39 · answer #3 · answered by the_proms 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to re-format it, i'm afraid, to NTFS or FAT32. But then, i'm pretty sure, Macs can't read either format, so you can't do anything to the drive.
Of course, Macs have a networking and sharing feature compatible with windows, so all you need to do is simply share your drive on the network. The only downside here is that you need to keep your mac on all the time.
Good Luck!!!!!
2006-08-25 13:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Network the 2 computers and then just enable windows sharing onn the mac.
2006-08-25 13:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, format it as a MS-DOS disk and Windows and Mac both can read it.
Never, ever trust a new hard drive with whatever formatting the factory put on it. Always format them yourself.
2006-08-27 01:37:16 · answer #6 · answered by Boro Mac Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right click the disk, and shared tab, enable the sharing
2006-09-01 04:00:01 · answer #7 · answered by david w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it should be cross platformed
2006-08-25 13:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by Lynden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋