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PC disks able to be read on Macs?
Name: Barry Date: November 4, 1999 at 18:32:28 Pacific
Comment:
Need some suggestions on what my be the problem or solution. Several of our Macs are unable to read PC/Dos formated disks in any external media drives(zip, jaz, etc.) that we purchased and installed. If the drives were put in by the manufacture when we bought them, they will read PC/Dos disks without any problem. What are we overlooking, a software issue? Please offer some help. We have PC Exchange on all machines. Is there some third party software that may help? Thanks for letting me vent my stress.
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