It sounds very much like it'san NTFS file system. Which macs can read but not write to by default.
From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2009 8:03 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users I can write to it on Windows. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Fogarty [mailto:si...@blinky-net.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:16 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users That drive you can't copy to, it's not one with a read only tag on it? That's a switch that you can change to read only or write From: Kevin Gibbs [mailto:kevj...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 9:23 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users None of these drives was formatted away from whatever they were when they were bought. The drive marked simply FAT, as distinct from FAT32, is a Lexar. The others are Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB drives. Like I said, I'll have to test again to see whether Pam can write to one of these FAT32 drives. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Scott Howell [mailto:scottn3...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:05 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Formatting thumb drives in Boot camp for use by Mac users 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. -- 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.
