External Harddisk

[carolin_estella]

Hi there,

I have a dummy question!

I have a WD External Harddisk, which was initialized and mounted on my
mac-powerbook OS X. Now I plugged into the usb on my windows xp
notebook. The External Harddisk is not recognised but seen in the
windows "device manager". What is wrong? Do I have to re-initialised
the Harddisk? Does that delete everything on the HD?

Many thanks, cheers, S.

 

[Guest]

If the disk is recognised in disk management but you do not see it in my
computer, then potentially all you need to do is import or activate it. On
the desktop or in the start menu, right click 'My Computer' and choose
manage. This will open the Computer managment MMC. Click on Disk
Management, find the disk in question and activate it.

Beau

 

[R. McCarty]

I'm familiar with Importing foreign disks, but the term Activate as it
relates to Disk drives doesn't ring a bell. Doesn't a MAC use as it's
native format a HFS+ format that XP can't natively access ?

 

[Guest]

Yes it does. And, maybe I should have mentioned it. But, I believe, the
disk would have to be imported (activated) before it could be recognised by
XP. My understanding is that there is third party software that can read
non-native file systems. Specifically, for reading HFS and extended HFS
there is MACDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/ .

Beau