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Mac hard drive to pc
Name: Ray12345 Date: August 12, 2003 at 17:53:45 Pacific OS: OS 9 CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Mac finally crashed. I purchased a nice PC machine, and need desparately to get the data off of the MAC onto the PC. Thinking I can salvage some SENSITIVE AND IRREPLACEABLE FILE ON THE MAC HARD DRIVE. Can I hook up the MAC hard drive on the PC and just read the data..maybe through a USB port? How do I do this, please...desparate to get these files off this MAC hard drive....
Name: robert ivy Date: August 12, 2003 at 19:50:15 Pacific
Reply:
Dont think it will work on a PC....but maybe you can find someone that will let you connect your HD to their Mac. If you live in central Alabama, then you are in luck...ive got plenty. What kind of Mac did it come out of?
Summary: You fdisk /mbr 'ed ? Just run the entire FDISK program,not just fdisk/mbr. After that format the drive and go. I am using the drive from my mac in my pc cause i upgraded the Macs hard drive to better ...
Summary: it is NOT the files format, it has to do with the hard drive format for File Allocation Table (FAT) for MAC and PC. If you hook up the MAC format drive to PC it will not even show up in the Windows be...
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