i have a 300gb external harddrive that i used when i had a pc and now that i have a mac it isn't in the correct format (NTFS? i believe?) it worked fine 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 after updating to 10.5.7 however it doesn't show up as a harddrive when i plug it in, i tried this with my roommates late 2006 MB running 10.5.7 also and same result, however when i ran it on my other roommates late 2007 MB running 10.5.6 it picked it up fine and works fine i concluded that it is probably a problem with 10.5.7... i was wondering if anybody else is having this problem? and if there is anyway around this problem?
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10.5.7 problem with external harddrive?
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I actually was thinking about starting a thread on this myself. I called applecare, and they were in the dark. Basically, it never got resolved. It happened immediately after the update. A fact I am sure of, since I backed up before the update, and was unsuccessful after.
Were you using some kind of software to get write access to the NTFS formatted disc? (like NTFS 3G) Maybe that software isn0t working correctly after the update to 10.5.7?
Have same problem with a Mac Book Pro 1.83 and a external USB Hard Drive! Hard Drive works fine with diffrent Macs ...
i'm actually trying it right now but i have a question, since it won't read on my macbook how can i get it formatted correctly for TM? (since it usually asks you if you want to use this harddrive for TM when you plug it in?) man this is frustrating i want to just go back to 10.5.6.... i'm copying all the data right now from it onto my roommates laptop and its gonna take 3.5 hours and then i gotta transfer it back onto it after i formate it another 3.5 hours... awesome....
on another note does anybody know the format that a harddrive needs to be to be MAC friendly? currently mine right now is FAT32...
nvm still doesn't work reformatted my harddrive to ntfs and still doesn't get read by MB... i read up on it and they are saying that its a firmware incompatibilty between buffalo and 10.5.7 does anybody know how to down grade easily to 10.5.6? this is irritating...
Are you using the firewire or the the USB cord to connect to the harddrive? Its probably a shot in the dark, but sometimes the firewire doesn't recognize the harddrive when the harddrive has been formatted on a pc via USB
Did you format it using the mac that will recognize the drive? That guy is right. Sometimes when you format a drive using a PC it will not recognize it.