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I have been using a 1TB Hitachi USB drive on Windows 7 for a couple months.
I want to transfer some files from my MacBook Pro to the hard drive.
I plug it in, I can see the directories, but I can't create files, directories or copy files to the drive.
When I right click and look at "get info", it says:
Sharing & Permissions: you can only read
How can I get my MacBook Pro to work with my Hitachi USB drive so I can copy files to it?
I've got another USB drive, if I format it as FAT from Windows, then I will be able to read/write to it from both windows and mac? – Edward Tanguay – 2010-11-11T21:53:45.963
Yup! I have had to deal with this at the Datacenter I work at. Marketing people wanted Macs. But they also needed to transfer files from there old systems. I was confused for a little bit. – David – 2010-11-11T21:55:58.040
when I try to format it, the only choice I have is "NTFS" and "exFAT", is exFAT what I want, it seems to be FAT64: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exfat, but it also says "Mac OS X Snow Leopard added exFAT support in version 10.6.5 on November 10, 2010." looks like I'm just in time, oh, but I only have 10.6.4, is there a way to do this before updating my MAC OS?
– Edward Tanguay – 2010-11-11T22:02:07.970What are you formatting it with? I don't think exFAT will work on Mac. – David – 2010-11-11T22:04:02.677
O wait. The last post in the following link states that Mac has added drivers to support exFAT. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=686923 I would try it. If it doesn't work, you can always reformat it. I will try to check this later, but I need to commute home from work now. (1 hour)
– David – 2010-11-11T22:05:24.737I'm formatting with Windows 7. – Edward Tanguay – 2010-11-11T22:05:48.637
Did you try to format as exFAT yesterday? If so, how did it work? – David – 2010-11-12T12:48:32.983
I added more to my answer. – David – 2010-11-12T15:37:37.243
What was the outcome? I hope everything worked out... – David – 2010-11-24T15:14:36.740