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New iMac won't show external drive

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dgreener

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I just bought my first iMac and I tried plugging my WD ibook external HDD into it and it won't show up at all. I tried looking in disk utilities and on the desktop and it doesn't show at all. I have been using the drive on a windows computer for a while and I know that i will probably have to be reformatted, but I thought that I would at least be able to read from it beforehand?

Any advice would be great.
Thanks
 
dgreener said:
I just bought my first iMac and I tried plugging my WD ibook external HDD into it and it won't show up at all. I tried looking in disk utilities and on the desktop and it doesn't show at all. I have been using the drive on a windows computer for a while and I know that i will probably have to be reformatted, but I thought that I would at least be able to read from it beforehand?

Any advice would be great.
Thanks
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Yes, you should be able to see the drive, regardless of the format. It's most likely NTFS, which Mac OS X can read natively, anyway. Check your cable connections and try different ports, if possible.
 
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