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Title: sharing an external USB drive connected to a Vista computer with a mac under snow leopard
Post by: Michel on May 24, 2010, 06:12:49 PM

I have a 1Tb external USB dive that I have used to backup m Vista laptop. I recently got a MacBook Pro and was hoping to be able to at least read the files on the external drive.

 

I connected the drive to the mac and I see the Utility_HD-CXU2 partition and I was able to install the turboUSB and lifeAgent. But I always get the message "The drive you connect cannot be read" and never see the other partition where the data was backed up from my Vista computer.

 

Thanks for any help with that

 

 

Title: Re: sharing an external USB drive connected to a Vista computer with a mac under snow leopard
Post by: jo342 on June 14, 2010, 07:56:32 PM

If you've at any point formatted the hard drive on the Vista machine, your Mac will not be able to write to it. The only way you will be able to share the external drive on the two would be to format it to FAT32, but there is a file size limitation of 4gb.

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