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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: mbalensiefer on October 14, 2008, 12:56:38 am

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: mbalensiefer on October 14, 2008, 12:56:38 am

With my Mac, I can "read", but not write, to my new 1TB hard drive. With Windows, I've of course got no problems with it.

Michael

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: Ken Rahaim on October 14, 2008, 12:59:24 am

What do the perms look like for your drive? Right click or control click the drive and select "Get Info". Is "Ignore ownership on this volume" checked or unchecked?

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: Dale Matthews on October 14, 2008, 01:33:08 am

If your drive was formatted NTFS you could have a problem.  Fat32 works on both systems.

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: francois on October 14, 2008, 03:38:00 am

Quote from: mbalensiefer

With my Mac, I can "read", but not write, to my new 1TB hard drive. With Windows, I've of course got no problems with it.

Michael

It looks like your drive was format as NTFS. Macs can read but not write to NTFS formatted drive. If you albsolutely want to keep your drive as a NTFS drive, you can install NTFS-3G (free). You can read more about NTFS-3G at the following address: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/)

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: mbalensiefer on October 15, 2008, 05:15:04 am

Thanks!

 I will download and install the NTFS S-G .dmg file.

 For future reference, there is no advantage for me to format external FAT hard drives into the NTFS file format, is there?

Thanks!
Michael

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: stamper on October 16, 2008, 05:06:30 am

Quote from: mbalensiefer

Thanks!

 I will download and install the NTFS S-G .dmg file.

 For future reference, there is no advantage for me to format external FAT hard drives into the NTFS file format, is there?

Thanks!
Michael

Can someone tell me what this has to do with ....... Discussions regarding Photoshop and other image processing topics?

Title: Macbook Pro won't take new external hard drive
Post by: francois on October 16, 2008, 05:45:41 am

Quote from: stamper

Can someone tell me what this has to do with ....... Discussions regarding Photoshop and other image processing topics?

Nothing.