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Can I Use My Mac Hard Drive On XP?
Name: natek Date: January 23, 2003 at 08:34:23 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: g4
Comment:
I have a hard drive i no longer use on my mac and i would like to put it in my pc, i was just wondering how to format it for use on the pc? thanks!
Name: Dick Johnson Date: January 23, 2003 at 09:26:25 Pacific
Reply:
Sure just go to the manufacture and download an Erase or Format Utility and blank the drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: natek Date: January 23, 2003 at 10:54:12 Pacific
Reply:
can i do it from within windows or dos? or like fdisk? or will that not recognize it?partition magic? anything like that. because its a firewire hard drive and i dont even know what company made the hard drive. thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: Jared Date: January 23, 2003 at 11:26:27 Pacific
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since it is firewire, when you plug it in winxp should load the drivers for it and everything... you just need to go under Administrator Tools in your Control Panel... launch Computer Management.. in that you can see your drive (if xp loaded the drivers) so you can format it to NTFS or whatever.. good luck and hope this helped
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