TC external with windows

stefmesman · 12:03 PM

i got an TC with 2 HDD's externally. i can view the HFS+ disc on my mac. the other disc is NTFS and should be able to be read on windows. they are both connected to the same network.

i have a windows 7 pc how do i get to the shared NTFS HDD folder?

stefmesman · Jul 3, 2011, 05:36 AM

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Anyone?

Brian33 · Jul 4, 2011, 05:20 PM

It's a shame you didn't get more of a response. I'm no network expert, but...

Since the W7 box will be connecting to the TC external disks via SMB, I don't think it matters (from the W7 box point of view) what format the disk is in... in other words, the TC takes care of dealing with the disk format. Also, I think that any disk attached to the TC should? (must?) be HFS+ to work.

Here's what I know: I have a USB hub connected to my TC (1st-gen) and a 16MB USB flash drive plugged into the hub. The flash drive is formatted as HFS+, and my Windows XP machine can connect wirelessly and read and write files to it just fine.

So, I think your problem is that the disk is formatted NTFS.

stefmesman · Jul 4, 2011, 05:47 PM

thanks! finally someone to answer,

where would i find the tc in the windows os environment?

i can reformat without problems.

Jul 2, 2011, 11:47 AM	#1
stefmesman macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Netherlands	TC external with windows i got an TC with 2 HDD's externally. i can view the HFS+ disc on my mac. the other disc is NTFS and should be able to be read on windows. they are both connected to the same network. i have a windows 7 pc how do i get to the shared NTFS HDD folder? Last edited by stefmesman; Jul 2, 2011 at 12:03 PM.
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Jul 4, 2011, 05:20 PM	#3
Brian33 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: USA (Virginia)	It's a shame you didn't get more of a response. I'm no network expert, but... Since the W7 box will be connecting to the TC external disks via SMB, I don't think it matters (from the W7 box point of view) what format the disk is in... in other words, the TC takes care of dealing with the disk format. Also, I think that any disk attached to the TC should? (must?) be HFS+ to work. Here's what I know: I have a USB hub connected to my TC (1st-gen) and a 16MB USB flash drive plugged into the hub. The flash drive is formatted as HFS+, and my Windows XP machine can connect wirelessly and read and write files to it just fine. So, I think your problem is that the disk is formatted NTFS. __________________ Alu iMac: early '08 24", 2.8 GHz Core2Duo, 6 GB RAM, and a 1st-gen Time Capsule (working just fine, thank you)
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stefmesman Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Netherlands	Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; nl-nl) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5) Anyone?
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stefmesman Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Netherlands	thanks! finally someone to answer, where would i find the tc in the windows os environment? i can reformat without problems.
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