I have an external hard drive, I added things from my computer to it. I took it to my friends house, loaded everything from the hard drive to his computer. Then, We tried taking things from his computer, but, it said that it couldn't modify the drive. Then someone told me I had to change the security setting or something on the hard drive to MSDOS so Mac could write to it. The only problem, There is no setting like that. Do I have to do something special to change it? Or, is that person completely wrong and I have to do something else, or can anything be done?
2006-12-22 12:33:15 · 2 answers · asked by Mashu 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Windows systems can only read and write a very limited set of filesystems, such as NTFS and FAT.
Mac OS X systems can handle a much larger variety of filesystems such as HFS, HFS+, UDF, and UFS.
You need to use a filesystem that both operating systems can understand - so use FAT32. Windows can understand this.
Re-partition your hard disk drive. Format one partition using FAT32. Use this partition to transfer files.
2006-12-22 12:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr
2006-12-23 11:28:45 · answer #2 · answered by gira 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋