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    I have a problem...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by CanadianDude, Jul 30, 2008.

  1. CanadianDude

    CanadianDude Notebook Deity

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    I have about 80 gb of music/movies on my Mac that I want to transfer over to my desktop PC. I have a external hard drive, and I have loaded all the files onto it. However, before I did that, I had to format the hard drive to Mac Journaled in order to load up the files.

    Now, I want to move those files over to my PC. When I hookup the external drive, my PC will not read the drive.

    So how can I get access to the files on the external hard drive from my PC? Or am I out of luck??
     
    CanadianDude, Jul 30, 2008
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  2. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    cdnalsi, Jul 30, 2008
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    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Instead of formatting the external drive to the journaled format, format it to FAT32 instead. Both OSX and Windows will be able to read and write to that drive.
     
    dbam987, Jul 30, 2008
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    Thanks, that did the trick! +1
     
    CanadianDude, Jul 31, 2008
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    agentphish Notebook Geek

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    Or you can format it NTFS and use the NTFS-3G plugin for OS X... Either way works.
     
    agentphish, Jul 31, 2008
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