your mac (10.2 on) will almost certainly read windoze formatted hard
disks and yes they can be reformatted (via apple's disk utilities).
Only issue is if NTFS formatted (which london to a brick they are
not) then OSX will honor XP's file permissions so if you swap between
mac and winXP then you might find you can mount the disk and see the
folders/files but not actually open them.
$150 ... hmmm might be worth it just for the cases but odds on the
controller bridge would limit replacement disk size to 120GB
Hi Paul,
I have a Maxtor external drive at work which I back up my PC with, and
I've pulled files off it onto my Mac (when I cleverly managed to lose
a week's worth of work and had to redo it all over the weekend)
without needing to format it. I can't remember what version of Mac OS
I was running at the time, it was probably 10.3.something.
Kind regards,
Kelly
On 4/12/06, Paul Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trouble is, unlike the rest of the Maxtor range, they seem to only be
formatted for Windoze. Has anyone tried running these on OSX machines? Can
they be reformatted for Macs?
Cheers, Paul.
Kelly Duffy
Illustration, Graphic & Web Design Services
Now also specialising in handmade invitations & cards.
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