If these drives are U3, they may show up as two drives. One drive is read-only, and the other can be read and written to like normal.
On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Kevin, > > If I understand you correctly, you have drives formatted for windows and your > wife can read, but can't write to them? That is very strange unless they are > formatted for NTFS. If you reformatted the drives from the format they > initially were when you purchased them, you may want to consider reformatting > them back to FAT32. I have a number of thum/flash drives here that will work > fine on both windows and the Mac for both read and write operations. If these > drives have not been reformatted, are they a particular brand? > > On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > >> Dear All, >> I don't own a Mac yet. I have several thumb drives I've formatted on my >> XP laptop. The fundamental problem with this is that when I bring one of my >> thumb drives to my wife's Mac, she can copy a file from it to her computer, >> but not from her computer to the drive. In essence, she can read but not >> write on this drive. If I Move to Mac and run Bootcamp, which I don't plan >> to do unless I must, will my wife be able to write on one of my thumb drives >> that I've formatted while my Mac is running Boot camp, or will we have the >> same format incompatibility issue? >> Kevin >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
