Help with harddrve issues!

[samrulestothema]

hello everyone, i have a mac formatted harddrive with a whole lot of music and movies on it, but my mac is away from me and i only have access to a windows xp laptop.

Surely there is a way i can get the mac harddrive to show up on windows?

Thanks!

Sam

 

[Xander562]

Nope, windows is lame like that. Macs can read windows formatted drives but windows has to be different and not be able to read the other way around. 🙁 At least that I know of.

 

[7031]

Well I believe if you search Google you can find drivers for Windows that will allow it to read Mac drives.

 

[MacDawg]

Try MacDrive

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[jsgrabo]

and if you ever get a chance to reformat the drive or if you get another drive, format it in FAT32. Then both and read and write without and drivers or programs.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

no, you cannot, only a mac can read both windows/mac drives on the network. download macdrive and give it a shot.

 

[jodelli]

Check this,
http://guides.macrumors.com/networking_mac_and_pc

I have a P4 sharing an ethernet switch with a Mac right now, and my entire iTunes library is showing up in a window on the PC. It's XP sp2, I think.

Now I'm playing a Beatles tune from the Mac library on iTunes on the the P4. It's converted from an AIFF file so authorization isn't an issue.

It sounds like you're attempting a remote hookup though, and that's a little more involved.

edit: wrong problem, sorry

 

[Neil321]

and if you ever get a chance to reformat the drive or if you get another drive, format it in FAT32. Then both and read and write without and drivers or programs.

Not a good idea if you want to store movies & music as FAT32 has a 4GB file transfer limit