Ex Hard Drive

[simonfoy]

I have a freecom ext hard drive I use to back up photos etc on my PC. I have plugged it into the mac but when I go to get Info it opnly says I can read the info and it will not let me copy my movies onto it from the mac.

Please can anyone help thanks

 

[pt0016]

You need to re-format it as Fat32 or use a driver such as NTFS-3g (google that)...

Cheers

 

[GGJstudios]

You need to re-format it as Fat32 or use a driver such as NTFS-3g (google that)...

Cheers

FAT32 may not be the best choice for movies, as they are more likely to be more than 4GB, but Mac OS X would be able to read and write from it. Since the Mac can't write to it, the drive is formatted as NTFS.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

 

[simonfoy]

Ahh i get it now, thanks everyone