Mac help... again.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 15th February 2008, 21:59

Originally Posted by Finn

Partitioning the drive as per TA's advice... as I type this. Try doing that with a fucken PC.

Why would I want too...

**scracha** · 15th February 2008, 22:02

Originally Posted by Finn

Partitioning the drive as per TA's advice... as I type this. Try doing that with a fucken PC.

Eh? Plug in unformatted USB drive into Windoze box. "this drive isn't farking formatted jimmy. Do ye want tae format it?". How easy is that? Use the Disk Management Plugin if you must.

Obviously I'm running Vista Ultimate Scotsman Edition.

Next time get an Ethernet enclosure for yer drive ya tight git.

**Finn** · 15th February 2008, 22:05

Originally Posted by scracha

Eh? Plug in unformatted USB drive into Windoze box. "this drive isn't farking formatted jimmy. Do ye want tae format it?". How easy is that? Use the Disk Management Plugin if you must.

You missed the dozen or so blue screens and 3 rebuilds in-between.

**HTFU** · 15th February 2008, 22:35

Originally Posted by Dave-

lol mac compatible hard drive....I hope you didnt pay extra for that....

How did you know ?

**riffer** · 16th February 2008, 06:39

Was the reason you couldn't write to the drive was it was formatted NTFS?

Macs won't write to an NTFS drive although they can read one.

I've heard it's a licensing issue (ie Apple won't pay $$$ to MS for right to use) but haven't seen official confirmation of that so who knows.

Everything seems to just work for me regardless - mac, windoze, linux. I must be doing something wrong.

**Sam I Am** · 16th February 2008, 08:56

click on the HD icon then uses "apple and i" keys to get "info" and you can change permisions form read only to "read write"

or just use "disk utility" to Erase disk and format however you like

**Finn** · 16th February 2008, 10:16

Originally Posted by riffer

Was the reason you couldn't write to the drive was it was formatted NTFS?

Macs won't write to an NTFS drive although they can read one.

Yeah, it was formatted as NTFS so a quick re-format did the trick.

**bugjuice** · 16th February 2008, 10:16

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

or just use "disk utility" to Erase disk and format however you like

easiest way, since most drives are sold for PC use. I bought a Seagate FreeAgentPro drive, and that had some good backup software on it, for PC.. just formatted it, and it's all mine..

Finn, you're not a great ambassador for the Mac community, are ya?!

**Finn** · 16th February 2008, 10:52

Originally Posted by bugjuice

easiest way, since most drives are sold for PC use. I bought a Seagate FreeAgentPro drive, and that had some good backup software on it, for PC.. just formatted it, and it's all mine..

Finn, you're not a great ambassador for the Mac community, are ya?!

That's exactly the same drive I bought.

Sorry for letting the team down. I'm not really worthy of a Mac however, I blame JVC for an HD camera that doesn't work with Leopard & QT 7.4. If it did, none of this would have happened.