maxtor is a liar 1010 Responses

Last post: 4 years, 1 month ago | Thread started: Apr 3, 08, 9:42 a.m.

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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?

  Apr 3, 08, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  I've had this problem - found out I didn't have it formatted for the mac.

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink

• studderine

  you have to format it for the mac, then PC's may not be able to read it. shitty.

  • x2– moldero

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Mojo

  I love maxtor. Sounds like a bad ass transformer, but no, they just make hard drives for consumers.

  BZZ EVIL CONSUMER, DESTROY

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  yeah, you can't use it on both.

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink

• OneNine

  yea i dont have patience for it - off to the apple store during lunch...

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:46 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  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.– ESKEMA1/2

    you've got it backwards there chief– stupidresponse2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:48 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  just plug it into the Apple, run Utilities on it and it will be fine. seriously a plug/click/play operation.

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:49 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  My Western Digital one was fine.

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:51 a.m. – Permalink

• ESKEMA

  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... :|– OneNine1/2

    unless the files are over 4gb– stupidresponse2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 9:51 a.m. – Permalink

• OneNine

  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.

  

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  Dog-earApr 3, 08, 10:01 a.m. – Permalink