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Changing filesystem to Mac
Name: bass420 Date: November 20, 2007 at 21:12:35 Pacific OS: Mac OS tiger CPU/Ram: 2GB Product: Mac Mini
Comment:
I am trying to add music files to my external hard drive. The problem is that the external hard drive used to be on my PC and is running on a Windows NT filesystem. I would like to change the filesystem so it will work with my Mac. Anyone know how to do this?
Name: Golfer Date: November 23, 2007 at 07:28:36 Pacific
Reply:
Two options...
First is free and easy to do, but you'll lose all the data currently on the drive. Use Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) to reformat the drive. If you are only going to use the drive with Macs, reformat as HFS+ (Journaled). If you need to use the drive with PCs, format it as FAT32.
Second option, buy a utility program like Paragon's NTFS for Mac OS X that lets OS X read/write to NTFS file systems.
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Response Number 2
Name: Outlander Date: November 23, 2007 at 12:43:18 Pacific
Reply:
NTFS is a proprietary MS only FS and is next to worthless on anything but NT based OS's I would reformat the drive in FAT32 so you can do cross platform work.
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