Can i use my WD20EARS Western Digital on a MACPRO?

[bonkerspr]

Hi, i have a WD green HD(model: WD20EARS) of 2TB on my PC desktop computer. Now i buy a new MAC PRO 8 cores. Can i use my WD20EARS Western Digital HD on my new MAC PRO? Both Computers have SATA Interface.

[alust2013]

Indeed you can use that, or any other SATA drive for that matter.

[spinnerlys]

Yes.



FAT32

Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/)and NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/). You can install both with NTFS-3Gfor Mac OS X (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2009/12/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-20091114.html).
To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8472736#post8472736)
(Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/)
To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html)



Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility (http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm)
Partition Your Hard Drive With Disk Utility (http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitypart.htm)

[mjsmke]

Yes, but you may have to initialise/format the drive when you put it in the Mac.

[bonkerspr]

But why when i plugin the hd the computer dont boot up ? :mad: I remove the HD from my pc and i put it on my mac pro and when i turn on the mac the monitors stay in a white . Never boot ups.

[alust2013]

But why when i plugin the hd the computer dont boot up ? :mad: I remove the HD from my pc and i put it on my mac pro and when i turn on the mac the monitors stay in a white . Never boot ups.

That is because you don't have the operating system on that drive. Try booting from the drive it came with, and put the other drive in another bay. Then you can use software like Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the original to your new one.

[bonkerspr]

NICE! now i boot up with my original HD and i put the wester digital green as secondary and now i will erease it (format) but i have a question was is the difference between mac os extend and mac os extended journaled format?
I ask this because i want to use my 2TB hd as primary and i want the OS installed on that one.

Witch format i supose to use?

[spinnerlys]

Journaled.

Mac OS X: About file system journaling (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2355)

[bonkerspr]

Thanks to everybody!! Very help full. Likes this website and people here! Thanks a lot!

[SamPotts]

Not sure I would use one for the OS, they are quite slow drives. Great for media etc but I would use at least a 7200rpm drive for the OS.

[goMac]

(snip)

These directions are out of date. Boot Camp includes free read/write HFS drivers. No need to install that stuff.

[spinnerlys]

These directions are out of date. Boot Camp includes free read/write HFS drivers. No need to install that stuff.

Boot Camp 3.x does, and not every NTFS formatted HDD will be used for Boot Camp and some people do have computers with Windows on it and some HDDs will be given to people, who don't have Macs.
Thus the directions are not out of date, they are incomplete or missing what you alluded to.

Off to the tequila bar.

[Concorde Rules]

Boot Camp 3.x does, and not every NTFS formatted HDD will be used for Boot Camp and some people do have computers with Windows on it and some HDDs will be given to people, who don't have Macs.
Thus the directions are not out of date, they are incomplete or missing what you alluded to.

Off to the tequila bar.

Bootcamp drivers only allow you to read, not write.

I'd rather not give Windows the ability to write to my OS X disks...