Mybook Question
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- mg33
Step 1 of my migration from Windows to Mac started today - moving all my stuff to a new 320 GB Mybook I just bought yesterday.
Tried it with Firewire, now tried it with USB, and in neither way did it recognize as a drive in My Computer. I think everything installed, and there's some software for setting up a backup, but I just want to start dragging and dropping files onto it.
Am I missing something? It is formatted for Mac right now, it came that way, but i figured I could just recognize it and start moving files to it.
Thanks for the help. Probably buying an MBP tomorrow. Just can't wait anymore for updates. If it comes down to it I'll just connect to my router and start moving files that way.
- duckofrubber0
What the hell is a Mybook?
- graham0
if its formatted for mac, then a pc wont see it
- neverblink0
connect your external HD to a USB port. Go to your Configuration/Control Center > Hardware > Let it scan for recently added hardware
- mkuplens0
Graham's correct. Most Windows installs won't be able to understand an HFS+ (OS X filesystem) formatted drive.
Not sure what the max size for FAT32 is, so you may end up having to format as NTFS. That said the new version of OS X may or may not be able write to NTFS drives (used to not be able to), so you may end up reformatting, dropping files on it in windows, bringing them onto your MBP, reformatting to HFS+, dropping them back on again.
Alternatively, just connect your Windows box to the same network as your MBP, then copy over Samba ("Windows File Sharing"). Fewer headaches that way.
- ribit0
You can also use MacDrive to allow your PC to use Mac discs
- Jaline0
It was formatted for Mac? I have one, and used it to change from a PC to a Mac. Not sure how I did it, but this may help: