Re: wd passport

2010-05-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Will take your advice and contact Mediafour (MacDrive developer) for help cheers john On Thu May 20 12:27 , Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com sent: Re: wd passport Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when

Re: wd passport

2010-05-20 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 20/05/2010, at 3:50 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Partition A: HFS+ Partition B: FAT 32 (max 32 GB) Partition C: NTFS When on the Mac: Partitions A B are accessible When on the PC: Partitions B C are accessible Partition A is used for Mac work and Partition C for PC work. Partition B

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread Ronda Brown
On 19/05/2010, at 2:17 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Ronni, Sorry to bother you but you recomend that I format my 500GB passport HD with MAcdrive software which I have done.Formatted to HFS+. Works ok at home but at work the PC wont mount the drive Initiates the wizard. Any

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread j...@iinet.net.au
Ronni, I have the latest version of macdrive. The HD works alright on the PC and MAC at home but not at work. Should it work any where or only where I have macdrive installed. On the PC at work managed drives is unassigned or allocated. Sorry about off list query John On Wed May 19

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi John, I would imagine that you need to install MacDrive on the PC at work, otherwise the PC won't be able to read write to the Drive. Cheers, Ronni On 19/05/2010, at 4:40 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Ronni, I have the latest version of macdrive. The HD works alright on the PC and MAC

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread j...@iinet.net.au
Hi , Thing are going from bad to worse. Can now only read the hard drive on my PC with Macdrive 8 installed. PB G3 no longer recognises the HD and wants to reformat the drive. Have used the tools from Macdrive and it says that their are no problems. Any body got any suggestions, bearing in

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would plug in to PC and MAC

Re: wd passport

2010-05-19 Thread j...@iinet.net.au
...@possumology.com sent: Re: wd passport Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick