Hi Adrian, As Peter has mentioned, we need to know what OS your are running. Also is the iMac an Intel or older PPC?
On 10/03/2011, at 8:30 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 10/03/2011, at 7:01 AM, Adrian Stevens wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I have finally bought my first iMac! I am pretty familiar with the Mac >> anatomy but is there any smart tips or shortcuts I might need? >> >> Also, if there are any apps or programs that manage homework that would be >> great (just started high school) >> >> And I promise, no more windows questions! >> >> I have 2 problems (I know, "thats not like mac!!!"): >> >> I have a HP deskjet all-in-one F370 printer (also with scanner and copier). >> My mac will recognise it as a printer but not a scanner! I have tried >> downloading drivers, but all it says is "CANNNOT CONNECT TO PRINTER". > > What version of Mac OS X are you running? HP seem to have all the current > drivers (v 10.3) for this device available for Snow Leopard. There may be > issues with earlier versions. Perhaps someone who has one of these units may > be able to help. > >> My external HDD can be viewed on the mac, but cannot be edited, written over >> or changed! >> > > This s most likely because your external drive is probably formatted as NTFS. > Current versions of Mac OS X can only read NTFS -formatted volumes, but > cannot write to them without extra help. There are several shareware > solutions to the problem available. If you Google "ntfs on mac os x" you will > come up with some answers. You can also go to www.macupdate.com and search > for "NTFS". One of the more popular choices (and free!) is MacFUSE, but there > may be better options as well. If you are only going to use this external drive on a Mac, you need to format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and depending whether it is an Intel or a PowerPC. GUID Partition Table - for bootability on Intel-based Macs Apple Partition Map - for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs If you wish I can send you “offlist” my Tutorial showing you how to re-format the drive correctly. It has screen shots so you can follow the instructions easily. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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 - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
