Is my HP hard drive compatible to my MAC PC?

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Is my HP hard drive compatible to my MAC PC?

Can I hook my HP extra hard drives up to a MAC PC to edit my pics? I was going to just try it but then thought better of that because I don't want to loose my pics. I am new at the MAC world and a little lost....

G4, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Nov 12, 2009 12:34 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 12, 2009 12:42 PM in response to FiremanJoe

Mac hard drives should be formatted as "Mac OS Extended" (aka HFS+), but Macs can also read/write to drives formatted as FAT32.

Windows hard drives are usually formatted as NTFS or FAT32. A Windows system cannot read or write to Mac formatted hard drives without software like MacDrive.

You can download and install a NTFS utility on your Mac that will allow it to read and write to NTFS formatted drives.

-DH

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Rodo

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Dec 19, 2009 10:21 AM in response to FiremanJoe

can you list some of the utilities that will help my mac read the pocket media drive? Thank you

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Answer 3

Nick Holmes

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Dec 19, 2009 12:13 PM in response to Rodo

NTFS driver for Mac: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
You can read and write FAT formatted drives without installing anything.

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