OS X and External HD - Troubled!

[docc]

Ok, so i just purchased a western digital passport 250GB hard drive and thought that i would be able to use it with my pc and my MB. I formatted it via Mac and realised that the Disk Utility didn't give me a FAT32 option, so i chose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Well, it works perfectly well with my macbook but doesn't work on my PC. It shows up in the system tray on my pc as a mass storage device, but i am not able to access it via "My Computer". What gives? I have about 200 GB of data on it and don't want to transfer everything onto another external HD and then reformat the drive to FAT32 on a PC.

Solutions?

 

[squeeks]

Ok, so i just purchased a western digital passport 250GB hard drive and thought that i would be able to use it with my pc and my MB. I formatted it via Mac and realised that the Disk Utility didn't give me a FAT32 option, so i chose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Well, it works perfectly well with my macbook but doesn't work on my PC. It shows up in the system tray on my pc as a mass storage device, but i am not able to access it via "My Computer". What gives? I have about 200 GB of data on it and don't want to transfer everything onto another external HD and then reformat the drive to FAT32 on a PC.

Solutions?

XP will not read or write to HFS+ (mac OS Extended) you can read from it using a program called HFS explorer, otherwise you will need to format it FAT32

 

[ZachPruckowski]

There are a few commercial Windows programs that let you read HFS+ (and I think write them too). But your best bet is to format FAT32 from within Windows (not OS X) using a tool that supports formatting at over 32 GiB.