tylerc
16-06-2006 17:25:15
Tonight I bought a 250gb WD HD at Best Buy. $80 after instant rebate. I also got an Adaptec enclosure.
Getting the hard drive and everything put together wasn't hard, but now it says for Macs I need a Macintosh compatible ATA Controller Card.
Cool, I don't have one, or know what it even is.
What should I do? Also, if I set it up on my PC, will my Mac (iBook G4) read it as a USB drive?
tylerc
16-06-2006 17:45:54
Ok, I set it up on my PC and tried it out on my Mac.
It says I can't move files onto it because it cannot be modified.
WTF
kyks17
16-06-2006 17:56:59
did you format it in a format that mac understands? aka not ntfs
tylerc
16-06-2006 18:08:03
Ah, it did NTFS by default, I reformatted into FAT32.
RocLaFamilia
16-06-2006 18:17:31
i get the same thing about transfering info onto my mac, but i dont really care so i just never changed it...
andyjeep
16-06-2006 22:22:04
is that just for your porn???
ILoveToys
17-06-2006 09:27:52
I've got a 250 external...it's sweet...I partioned most of it as NTFS,but left like 15 gigs as fat32 in case I do ever feel the need to go back and forth...
tylerc
17-06-2006 09:56:14
Windows XP will read FAT32 right?
Tholek
17-06-2006 13:17:33
It's just that lesser versions of Windows won't read NTFS.
kyks17
17-06-2006 13:21:29
fat32 = most cross-platform compatible format
tylerc
17-06-2006 13:28:50
Ok, good, that's what I formatted all of it to be.