Pc??

digiman77 · #1 March 5th, 2004, 07:36 PM

Hi!

I just bought a PeeCee for games and music as i to use my Quicksilver G4 for Pro video editing and DVD authouring only. I have a 200gb firedisk with all my music and digitalphotos on, it is formatet in Mac OS Extended format ( not Journaled ). My question is will my PC be able to read this disk? I want PC itunes to be able to acess my music libary on the disk.

Thanks Stuart

DeltaMac · #2 March 5th, 2004, 10:11 PM

The simple answer is: No, your PC will refuse to read your HFS extended format drive. There's other threads here that discuss setting up external HDs for shared use.

btoth · #3 March 6th, 2004, 12:18 AM

I believe there is software that can read older Apple formats, back when I needed to read some Mac floppies on my PC. Best bet is to probably format the external as FAT32 for best compatibility all around.

Zammy-Sam · #4 March 6th, 2004, 05:52 AM

Why not share the firewire disc over the network? This will work

ora · #5 March 6th, 2004, 06:05 AM

I remember finding a piece of software that allowed you to mount mac hd's (inc fw) on a pc, though i never used it. Its called MacDrive (look here: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/). As I remember it would only read fat32 disks, and there was a limit to the size of drive it could mount of 32gb as a result.

hope this helps (though you'd have reformat the drive to make it work)

digiman77 · #6 March 6th, 2004, 01:15 PM

Thanks!

The disk i am useing is a LaCie 200Gb Firewire. How do i format to Fat 32? In Windows? I guess i have to back my stuff and format and reinstall everything on the disk. Does OSX read Fat32 ok?

Stuart

Ifrit · #7 March 6th, 2004, 08:31 PM

Recently, I bought the macdrive software and I have no problems with it. Basically it is "just" a driver which enables Windows to read/ write HFS/HFS+ formated media, including all sorts of CDs, DVDs, hard discs and floppies (ipods too)
I never encountered any "size" limit (I've successfully mounted a HFS+ formated Lacie FW disk - 40 GB on my WinXP machine).

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..remember it would only read fat32 disks, and there was a limit to the size of drive it could mount of 32gb as a result.

Huh, I don't know what are you talking about. As I already stated, macdrive is a product to read/write HFS formated media with a PC (Windows OS).

If you don't want to buy this software you could format you FW disk to fat32 (using your Windows OS). OSX can read/write fat32 formated media (but can't format media to fat32 by itself). But this sollution also means you have to backup your stuff first...

ora · #8 March 7th, 2004, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Ifrit

Huh, I don't know what are you talking about. As I already stated, macdrive is a product to read/write HFS formated media with a PC (Windows OS).

It was quite a while ago that i looked at macdrive, so i assume it was an earlier version. I was told about the 32gb limit by someone who was using it at their company, so i can only assume its become more effective since then.