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PC disks able to be read on Macs?
Name: Barry Date: November 4, 1999 at 18:56:06 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.
Name: Brian Creno Date: November 23, 1999 at 12:30:42 Pacific
Reply:
Your problem is software. It sounds as if the PC Exchange control panel is missing. This is need to read and format disks for the PC.
Hope that helps.
iRage
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Response Number 2
Name: mike winder Date: December 5, 1999 at 16:16:52 Pacific
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i've had no problems getting macs to read pc disks as long as the disks were formatted first in the pc. formatting in the mac won't work in the mc also are they all the same drive type? ie double sided high density?
Summary: 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. ...
Summary: To whom it may concern, I have some CDs that were created on a Windows-based PC which need to be read on a Mac OS 8 machine. Some of the files on the disc are hidden or read-only. Does anybody know...
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PC disks able to be read ...
