Using External from OSX on XP?

[sou1 so1di3r]

SO I have my external HD I use for torrents and such with my MacBook. But I am home for break and wanted to plug it into my XP machine and just let all my torrents seed here.... will this work? I plugged it in and the safely remove hardware thing shows up but I can't find the HD anywhere in my computer?

 

[richard.mac]

thats becuase Windows cannot read a Mac OS Extended (HFS) formated drive. take a look at this article to decide how you could get your data on an HFS formatted drive in Windows.

 

[JediMeister]

I don't think either XP or Vista are capable of reading a Mac OS Extended formatted drive. The only way to have it visible to both Macs and PCs would be to have the drive formatted as FAT32. NTFS would also be a possibility if you have MacFUSE installed on your Mac.

 

[BlueRevolution]

As richthomas says, Windows can access HFS-formatted drives using appropriate drivers.

 

[sou1 so1di3r]

thats becuase Windows cannot read a Mac OS Extended (HFS) formated drive. take a look at this article to decide how you could get your data on an HFS formatted drive in Windows.

Sweet... checking out MacDrive now😀

 

[spacecadet610]

Yeah MacDrive works awesome.

 

[sou1 so1di3r]

Awesome. This baby works like a charm!

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

If I remember correctly, you could also backup the data and reformat the drive to FAT32. Both Leopard and Windows can read FAT32.