Firewire Hard Drive - Not Readable

[coconn06]

Hello,

I recently reformatted my firewire hard drive to MS-DOS format so I could transfer some files to a PC, manipulate them with a PC-only application, and transfer them back to my Mac.

The PC could read and write to the hard drive just fine, but unfortunately when I brought the hard drive back to my PowerMac, it would not mount the drive. The error message I got was the following:

Any ideas how I can get access to the files on my hard drive?

Thanks

 

[eva01]

by reformatting it to FAT32, i don't think Mac can read MS-DOS format but i may be wrong

 

[coconn06]

by reformatting it to FAT32, i don't think Mac can read MS-DOS format but i may be wrong

I reformatted it to MS-DOS on my Mac via Disk Utility and afterward I was able to transfer the files to it. So this tells me Mac OS X is able to read MS-DOS formatted disks.

 

[ManchesterTrix]

Mac can read/write FAT32 and can read NTFS. Is the Drive still readable by your PC?

 

[eva01]

I reformatted it to MS-DOS on my Mac via Disk Utility and afterward I was able to transfer the files to it. So this tells me Mac OS X is able to read MS-DOS formatted disks.

well then thats weird. I have no idea, maybe the PC did something to it.

 

[coconn06]

Mac can read/write FAT32 and can read NTFS. Is the Drive still readable by your PC?

The PC is not at my apartment, but since nothing changed since last night when I used it with the PC and this morning, I can assume it's still readable by the PC.

 

[jeremy.king]

The PC is not at my apartment, but since nothing changed since last night when I used it with the PC and this morning, I can assume it's still readable by the PC.

Use the PC to back up the contents, then use the PC to format the drive.

FWIW, MS-DOS in Disk Utility = FAT32 - so you didn't do anything wrong here.

 

[eva01]

FWIW, MS-DOS in Disk Utility = FAT32 - so you didn't do anything wrong here.

well you learn something new everyday

 

[Mernak]

similer thing happened on a flash drive that i formatted in MS-DOS, execpt that it just wouldn't mount on the desktop, and i couldn't get files on or off the drive. alson i got no warning. i just reformatted it via disk utility. but i lost all data. In your case i would try to backup the data on the PC and use the PC to reformat in in FAT32.