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 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 john On Wed May 19 16:48 , Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> sent: > >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 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 15:33 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com> sent: >> >>> >>> >>> 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 siggestions >>>> >>>> john >>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> I've replied to WAMUG as 'Off List' is reserved for my clients. >>> Also someone else who uses or has used MacDrive might be able to help you. >>> >>> What version of MacDrive have you installed on your PC? >>> Did you restart WindowsXP PC after installing MacDrive? >>> Can you see the drive in Disk Management? >>> Right-click on My Computer and select Manage. From the Computer Management screen, >> select Disk Management. In this window you should see all of your connected >> physical drives, their format, if they are healthy, and the drive letter. >>> >>> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/find-your-missing-usb-drive-on-windows- xp/> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 >>> 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm >>> >>> OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard >>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >>> > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')">wamug- unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
