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Re: file transfering prob mac/windows
Hi Mark,
No... all we did is hook up both HDs into his mac and
then this happened hooking it back to my PC.Everytime
i want to open my HD it wants to format it.
would maybe restoring files with XP going back to the
day before we did this work?
thanx
Luis
--- mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Did you accidently format it as a Mac drive? If you
> use standard... I'm not even sure what you call it,
> "windows" format I guess, the mac will read it as
> well
> as it's native drive formatting, but XP will not. I
> think there's an inexpensive utility though for XP
> that lets it read mac formatted drives. I never
> hook
> my laptop to the internet (ok, that's a lie, I do
> when
> there's a call and response license thing like NI
> uses) so I transfer files using a windows format usb
> "thumb" drive. That's probably easiest.
>
> --- "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi gang,
> > a friend of mine brought his new sea gate 300GB
> > external usb HD to swap files from our external
> > backup
> > sea gate HDs, both plugged into his mac book.The
> > first
> > time we plugged my HD into the mac we had to
> restart
> > it for it to recognize it but then it was
> recognized
> > and did the transfer successfully,but this morning
> i
> > plugged my HD back to my windows PC and every time
> i
> > try to open it,it just asks "do u want to format
> > your
> > HD?"however his HD is recognized on both platforms
> > without a problem!
> > anybody has a clue what happened? have i lost all
> my
> > backup files?is transfering files from different
> > O.S.
> > through an external usb HD a forbidden sin?
> > thank you all!
> > Luis
> >
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