maxtor is a liar
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- OneNine
So I bought a Maxtor external hard-drive a little while back - it says that it is compatible with Mac and PC but my Mac doesn't recognize it
I've been lazy about trying to troubleshoot (I googled a few reccomendations to no avail) and will probably just buy a new external -buuut before I do, I figure I would ask if anyone has experienced something like this and found a solution...anyone?
- doesnotexist0
I've had this problem - found out I didn't have it formatted for the mac.
- studderine0
you have to format it for the mac, then PC's may not be able to read it. shitty.
- Mojo0
I love maxtor. Sounds like a bad ass transformer, but no, they just make hard drives for consumers.
BZZ EVIL CONSUMER, DESTROY
- doesnotexist0
yeah, you can't use it on both.
- OneNine0
yea i dont have patience for it - off to the apple store during lunch...
- madirish0
if it is FAT32 formatted (or variation) the Mac will not read it. if it is HFS, or HFS+ formatted, both will read it fine....
- actually it's the other way around. mac reads NTFS but doesn't write on it.ESKEMA
- you've got it backwards there chiefstupidresponse
- madirish0
just plug it into the Apple, run Utilities on it and it will be fine. seriously a plug/click/play operation.
- Jaline0
My Western Digital one was fine.
- ESKEMA0
a solution for this is to format it to the mac and create a partition in FAT so you can transfer content from one platform to another... not perfect but that's what I did.
- yeaaa... :|OneNine
- unless the files are over 4gbstupidresponse
- OneNine0
I already used it on a PC - so i dunno, I dont think it'll work regardless - I'll give it one more try tonight I guess and try to run utilities on it...thanks for the input.