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I have a Seagate external hard drive. I backed up my PC on the external

drive. The drive came factory set for FAT32 format. I was able to copy

some files from the E drive to the Mac. On later attempts the E drive said

it needed to be re-formatted. This same message came up on both the PC and

MAC. I suspect the Mac corrupted the E drive. I reformatted the external

drive but obviously lost and recopied all the files from the PC. So....what

is the best format to use on the E drive to swap files but not corrupt the E

drive. NTSF file might work since I do not need to write from the Mac, just

copy. Any help?

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    JC wrote:

    > I have a Seagate external hard drive. I backed up my PC on the

    > external drive. The drive came factory set for FAT32 format. I was

    > able to copy some files from the E drive to the Mac. On later

    > attempts the E drive said it needed to be re-formatted. This same

    > message came up on both the PC and MAC. I suspect the Mac corrupted

    > the E drive. I reformatted the external drive but obviously lost and

    > recopied all the files from the PC. So....what is the best format to

    > use on the E drive to swap files but not corrupt the E drive. NTSF

    > file might work since I do not need to write from the Mac, just copy.

    > Any help?

     

    The Mac will not see the NTFS drive so you are stuck with FAT32. If you are

    using the external drive as a backup for your PC then do just that , use a

    USB thumb drive to swap files to the Mac.

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    On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:24:00 -0700, JC wrote:

    > I have a Seagate external hard drive. I backed up my PC on the external

    > drive. The drive came factory set for FAT32 format. I was able to copy

    > some files from the E drive to the Mac. On later attempts the E drive said

    > it needed to be re-formatted. This same message came up on both the PC and

    > MAC. I suspect the Mac corrupted the E drive. I reformatted the external

    > drive but obviously lost and recopied all the files from the PC. So....what

    > is the best format to use on the E drive to swap files but not corrupt the E

    > drive. NTSF file might work since I do not need to write from the Mac, just

    > copy. Any help?

     

    NTFS will work is you just want to copy files from it to the Mac. Mac OSX

    is perfectly capable of reading FAT32 or NTFS on drives used

    interchangeably with Windows machines.

     

    I'm not sure why you had the problem with the FAT32 drive. I've used both

    FAT32 and NTFS externals with my MacBook Pro and have not seen that happen.

     

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    Sharon F

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