i finally made the decision to switch to mac and am getting a macbook. i had a compaq before and a 250gb external hdd. if i just plug it into the mac, should i have any problems or will all the stuff get wiped clean, all it is is music and movies, but its a lot of stuff, thanks for the help.
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external hard drive help
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As long as the drive is formatted in FAT32 everything will be fine. If it is NTFS, the external drive will be read-only unless reformatted or you find a utility to allow full access to the NTFS drives.
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If it is in NTFS and you want to be able to read and write install MacFuse then install the NTFS 3G driver.
If you want to copy the files to your Mac then format the drive.
After copying files open disk utility and choose the partition tab after selecting the hard drive to completely change the partition scheme to Mac OS X Extended Journaled.
If it is in NTFS and you want to be able to read and write install MacFuse then install the NTFS 3G driver.
If you want to copy the files to your Mac then format the drive.
After copying files open disk utility and choose the partition tab after selecting the hard drive to completely change the partition scheme to Mac OS X Extended Journaled.
ok so i did that and now when i plug it in it pops up an error that says NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s1 at Volumes/FreeAgent Drive because the following problem occured $logfile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount ' dev/disk1s1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NFTS is marked to be in use
it gives some options and i did one and it did nothing, do you know what i could do?
Mount is denied because NFTS is marked to be in use
it gives some options and i did one and it did nothing, do you know what i could do?
If you hibernate Windows XP it will do this or if the last time Windows was shut down it was not done so properly through the shutdown command; you will get not be able to mount the HD in Mac OS X. It will behave like this until you boot into Windows and shutdown properly. This is a fail safe for NTFS 3G so that it does not allow changes to a possibly damaged Windows installation, conceivably worsening it.