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I am running 9.2.2 and I have an external 80gb drive from a Windows 2000 platform. It is NTFS formatted so it won't read it. If I partition in FAT32 will Mac be able to read it then? Will it recognize the 3 partitions and be able to extract data?
This is a serious issue costing me alot of $$$ so any help would be appreciated!
no, mac can read pc format floppy but not pc hard drive fat16/32/ntfs, mac use hfs/hfs+ for its hard drive.
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A mac should read fat16 just fine- it's fat32 and ntfs it doesn't (i dont think) read...i know ive read harddrives that were all dos countless times..ive got anexternal drive i always plug my new (used) harddrives into after i buy them..so i dont have to put them in the mac before ive even checked them out..and lots of the time, they've been fat 16...long as pc exchange (or whatever it's called from 8.5 onwards) is in your control panels...dont know about OS-X tho, not familiar with it.....
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The only other way you could do it is to connect the drive to a PC and share it to a Mac over ethernet then you can use OS9 or OSX.
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ive got an Archos Jukebox MP3 player/20Gb personal hard drive.
It is partitioned as FAT32 as this is what the internal Archos OS requires.I have no problem using the USB connection to either the PC or the MAC.
I need no extra software on the MAC - just plug it in and it is automatically mounted to the desktop, and totally usable.Oh yeah, i'm using OS 9.2.2
...so it might be worth formatting as FAT32 - off the top of my head i think the max partition size is 32GB, so you'd probably need 3 partitions. Not sure how that would mount to the MAC!
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UPDATE:
MAC OS 9.2.2 CAN read FAT32, however cannot, for some reason, see more than the first partition. (there are 3 partitions on my one external drive). Any other hints as to how to see these other partitions????
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do you need to see all 3 partitions on the MAC at the same time?
not sure if this would work, but you could try using disk management in Win2K to make the relavent partition active - it may be that the MAC only sees the active partion on the external HD ?!? (This is no good though if you need all 3 simultaneously).Can you network the PC and MAC?
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No, I can't network the PC and the Mac, they are across the continent. I need to see all 3 partitions simultaneously
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here is my solution:
i have a pc xp home and a mac os 9.2.2
for a HD seagate baracuda 120 go mounted in usb box....
(a box is cheap and you mount easily the ide idsk into it: much chaeper than a HDD 120go iomega usb
and i have to say that iomega "help"
is deceiving does'nt even answers me anymore this day:
i had a cd burner problem with os 9.2 many of you may have had , and even if all has begun many weeks ago ...here is the way to proceed
1 format in dos format under 9.2 (it will format 47go maxi)
2 extend partition to 120 with the pcthat gives a fat 32 disk usable by both
except at that time i can't find a utility to save all my hard disk on the usb. (i found one if the disk was ntfs but for the mac i have to keep it in fat32 if anobody can help mail me directly please...
cordially
jl
J-L
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After some experimentations here is a simpler way and my copy problem is solved as ntfs is used...
on my 120 gb seagate
nb: in USB box:
after downloading the right driver for the pc
1 FOrmat the external hard disk with
a) a ntfs partition
b) a fat32 partitionnb: in this order , in the reverse one the mac won't see the fat 32 and ask to format the disk!!!!
2) the mac g3 9.2 recognises the fat32 as a hard disk without new soft.
(it works with more than one fat32)
so i can transfer data easily in both computers connecting one by one on the usb hdd.
the pc is able to write on both, the mac on the fat 32 only.
just a question of data organisation...cordially
J-L
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