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From: awbrandt34 on 31 Jul 2010 02:07
hi my pc crashed about a year ago and i had them recover as much as possible
on an external hard drive. this works fine to recover things but i would like
to use my harddrive to transfer music as well from my new mac desktop to my
macbook pro. i am trying to move music onto my external hard drive but
whenever i drag music files onto the hardrive it will not let me. i have put
the recovered files on my mac already
any help would be appreciated
thanks

From: Paul on 31 Jul 2010 02:36
awbrandt34 wrote:
> hi my pc crashed about a year ago and i had them recover as much as possible
> on an external hard drive. this works fine to recover things but i would like
> to use my harddrive to transfer music as well from my new mac desktop to my
> macbook pro. i am trying to move music onto my external hard drive but
> whenever i drag music files onto the hardrive it will not let me. i have put
> the recovered files on my mac already
> any help would be appreciated
> thanks
>

The fact you can "see" the partition on that hard drive, while in Windows,
implies the file system on the partition is FAT32 or NTFS. (There may be
third party software you can add to Windows, to have Windows support
other file systems. On my other boot disk, I added support for EXT2 for
example.)

Chances are, you need to look for "Take Ownership" in your favorite
search engine.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

"How to take ownership of a folder

You must have ownership of a protected folder in order to access it..."

See what the ownership is of the disk, and change it so your current
account can access the disk.

Just a guess,
Paul
From: Shenan Stanley on 31 Jul 2010 09:13
awbrandt34 wrote:
> hi my pc crashed about a year ago and i had them recover as much as
> possible on an external hard drive. this works fine to recover
> things but i would like to use my harddrive to transfer music as
> well from my new mac desktop to my macbook pro. i am trying to
> move music onto my external hard drive but whenever i drag music
> files onto the hardrive it will not let me. i have put the
> recovered files on my mac already
> any help would be appreciated
> thanks

If you have already gotten everything off the drive you need - format it on
the mac and use it.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


From: awbrandt34 via WindowsKB.com on 31 Jul 2010 13:12
Shenan Stanley wrote:
>> hi my pc crashed about a year ago and i had them recover as much as
>> possible on an external hard drive. this works fine to recover
>[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>> any help would be appreciated
>> thanks
>
>If you have already gotten everything off the drive you need - format it on
>the mac and use it.
>

How do i format it on mthe mac? and after it is formatted on the mac can i
put the recovered material back on the external harddrive? or will it not be
compatable?

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From: Shenan Stanley on 31 Jul 2010 15:07
awbrandt34 via WindowsKB.com wrote:
> How do i format it on mthe mac? and after it is formatted on the
> mac can i put the recovered material back on the external
> harddrive? or will it not be compatable?

Why are you asking in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general advice on using
your Macintosh computers? If you have two of them, surely you know how to
utilize them to do basic things like format a disk? Or did you buy a
macintosh because you were told it would be 'simpler' or 'less trouble'...?

*sigh*

To format the drive, the OS X Disk Utility should do the trick
(Applications --> Utilities ...)

Like this:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4488947_format-drive-os-x-leopard.html
or this:
http://cnettv.cnet.com/8301-13415_53-10286826-11.html
or this:
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Format-a-Drive-for-Mac-OS-X-and-Windows-259725155

As far as putting anything on it - you can put any files/folders you want -
including those you copied elsewhere... Like the old restored files. When
you format the drive - it is completely erased - so those files need to be
somewhere else before you format.

Unless you plan on having individual files over 4GB in size - FAT32 would be
the most portable choice.

Enjoy.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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