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    Windows 7 RC via bootcamp- use external hard drive after time maching backup?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by omelet1978, Jun 22, 2009.

  1. omelet1978

    omelet1978 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    Went and did the bootcamp thing and installed Windows 7. I tried to connect my WD external via firewire, but it would not show up in Windows.

    This is after I did a backup of my mac to time machine...is it related and is there a quick fix?

    Thanks
     
    omelet1978, Jun 22, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Is the file system on the WD external hdd either ntfs, fat32 or exfat?
     
    jackluo923, Jun 22, 2009
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  3. omelet1978

    omelet1978 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not sure, it is a recently purchased 1tb Western Digitial MyBook hard drive with firewire if that helps.
     
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    If the external drive is formatted in MacOS Journaled (which WD might ship it that way), I don't believe that Windows can read that format.... which would be the simplest explanation for your issue as Windows would just refuse to acknowledge the drive as even being there.

    I'm assuming that OSX still recognizes the drive when you plug it in?
     
    ClearSkies, Jun 22, 2009
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  5. Liistrad

    Liistrad Notebook Enthusiast

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    Some of the new WD MyBook 1TB here in portugal are coming preformated for Macs.
    Which is to say, OS X can read it but Windows cannot.
    The solution is to format it to NTFS and get something like ntfs-3g to read/write it on OS X (because afaik OS X cannot write to ntfs partitions natively, only read it).
     
    Liistrad, Jun 22, 2009
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