MAC Issue - external Hard Drive
 

Hello Chaps,

have a friend who has a Mac and gave him a USB external Hard Drive. When he plugs it into his USB port he can pull any data from it he needs but he cannot write to it??? So we took a look at the sharing permissions on his Mac and it won't give us the option to share it. Plug it into my Laptop - a windows XP one and select share and deselect write protect and try again - no better? Seems that his lappy simply will not hoist it on board.

Any of you kind fellows got any ideas why this might be? His Mac is fairly new - about a year old. The drive is a conventional Laptop hard drive formatted NTFS. The unit came with a driver disc which we haven't tried yet - XP didn't require it of course and we didn't think his Mac needed it since it recognises and pulls from it.......?


Heeeeeeeelp! :ugh:

If you want to share the drive between a Windows and Mac machine, you will need to re-format in FAT 32. If you wish to use it on the Mac only, then for best results reformat using Mac HFS+.

From the finder, go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility.