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    Portable Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cobalic, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. cobalic

    cobalic Notebook Evangelist

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    I know this isn't terribly related to laptops, I just don't know where else to ask.

    I purchased a Western Digital "passport" aka portable hard drive. I hooked it up to a Mac (OS 9) and made the mistake of letting it partition the device.

    Now my Vista running laptop doesn't even see it when I plug it in. Any ideas?
     
    cobalic, Jan 16, 2008
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  2. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    i suggest u reopen mac osx and either erase or format the hard drive to a windows compatible type eg fat32
     
    jisaac, Jan 16, 2008
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    Re-format in windows and you should be fine.
     
    Wiz33, Jan 16, 2008
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    Change/format the file system to FAT32 as listed above as both the Mac OS and Windows will be able to read and write to it.
     
    RasBastard, Jan 17, 2008
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