problems with external HD?

Question

i am trying to transfer music over from a emac to a pc. i converted the hd in the disk utility (Disk Utility - Erase), and i set it up as an MS-DOS File system to allow the transfers. but for some reason, when i hook up the drive to the PC, the drivers still work, but in the MY COMPUTER it does not show up and i cannot open the drive.

the external hard drive is a maxtor OneTouch III USB drive.

what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

"i converted the hd in the disk utility (Disk Utility - Erase), and i set it up as an MS-DOS File system" if you did this on your Mac, that's what's WRONG.

Start over, but use Windows instead, then it will work.

Answer 2

there is an rather user-friendly answer for it, step a million = do no longer panic. step 2 = do no longer attempt something you're no longer effective approximately. All you need to do because Your force is decrease than 0.5 crammed is do a seek for a solid, properly-programmed 'partition resizing utility' that isn't delete something, Use it to cleanly re-cut up the force into *2* partitons, format the 2d one, and reproduction the present archives onto it. Then test & defrag the present partition, which will now be 500Gbs. in case you're working abode windows XP abode or professional, endure in innovations it may no longer use partitions over 136Gbs - era. G'success!!.