internal (now external w/ enclosure) not recognized

[bandit350]

i pulled out my old data storage hard drive (secondary drive strictly for photos, movies, and music) from my pc. i put it in a rocketfish usb enclosure (ata) and i can't get my macbook to recognize it. any help will be greatly appreciated as this is where i have many photo's stored. i can no longer test it in the pc or at work. thoughts?

 

[nippyjun]

How was that drive formatted? Ntfs or fat32?

 

[bandit350]

not sure

good question. what is the standard for windows xp?

 

[Good-Apollo]

good question. what is the standard for windows xp?

NFTS i'd imagine

 

[nippyjun]

I believe it needs to be fat32 for the mac to recognize it.

If you know someone w/ a pc could you transfer all the data to a dvd(s) and then format the drive for mac and then load the data back on there. Or you could put all the data on a pc, format the drive as fat32 and then transfer the data to the drive.

Just make sure the data is backed up before you format the drive.