I've got a Maxtor Hard drive that I use in an external enclosure. It's a ATA 120GB drive. I used to use it with my PC, but I recently switched to a macbook core2duo. I can read from the drive, but I can't write to it. I was wondering...how do I reformat the drive so I can use it to store files using both my macbook and PC? Do I use Disk Utility that comes with OSX and if so, which format? MacOS Extended, MacOS Extended (Journaled), MS-DOS File System, etc?
Thanks!
2007-06-25 14:06:51 · 3 answers · asked by rohan611 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
if it's on the mac to say... extended (not journaled) .
if it's going to go back and forth ... ms dos file system (fat32).
and yes , you use disk utility!
2007-06-25 14:14:34 · answer #1 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes go into disk utility and format it as a mac journaled drive
2007-06-25 21:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yea it won't write because of the two different kernals basically just use the OSX tool and just use fat32 partioning mac doesn't like NTFS i don't think there again im not a mac person
2007-06-25 21:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋