Using freeagent drive on my Mac

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  1. appreci8itall, Aug 1, 2010

    appreci8itall macrumors newbie

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    Does anyone know how to get my Mac to read the music (60 gig's) I loaded on my FreeAgent drive from a PC? I tried to plug in another drive and it ended up costing me $1,400 to recover all my wife's photo's. Thanks!!
     
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  2. HikariYuki, Aug 1, 2010

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    It should be able to read the external and read the files you put on there from the PC
     
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  3. Caleb531, Aug 1, 2010

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    The drive needs to be formatted correctly. If you launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities), select the drive and it will tell you how it is formatted.

    Possible format choices include:

    MS-DOS (FAT) - Windows/Mac can both read/write
    NTFS - Windows can read/write, Mac can only read
    Mac OS Extended (HFS+) - Only Mac can read/write
     
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