Thread: My Mac Book Versus My PC formated External Drive Questions
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Old 12-31-2010, 01:00 PM  
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I have a external hard drive question..

I got a external hard drive that was orginally used on my PC.. I got a new one for Christmas and now I want to use the *OLD* one for my Mac and brought it to the office

When I plug it in to my mac it loads up fine but I can't transfer files just play them.

I guess it's set to read only? Can change it from this Mac to turn read only off? is so how? or do I have to bring the harddrive home and change the read only settings from my pc?

Please advise
If you can read the files you can copy them.

copy the files to the MAC (or backup the removable drive in any preferred manner)
reformat the drive using the MAC OS

you should then be able to achive full functionality on the removable drive


hope that helps

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