External HD for XP and OSX (1 Viewer)

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So I have a 250GB Maxtor USB 2 external hard drive that has been working grand on Windows XP for half a year...just use it for backing up stuff...music, movies, photos.

I just got a Macbook Pro (intel), all set up...plugged the HD in, and...nada...it doesn't mount at all. But if I plug in my little 1GB memory stick into the macbook (or PC), it works fine and is recognised as a drive.


Do I have to reformat my Maxtor to work with OsX?
Hope not as I don't want to lose all my stuff.


Maybe I can I partition my Maxtor, and have one half of it Mac-friendly?
Right now all I want to do is move stuff onto the Mac internal HD...as you may have gathered I'm a mac-retard...


...but willing to learn!

 

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This is what I think is the case

If its formatted Fat16 or FAT32 it should mount on your machine and you should be able to read/write to the disc
If its formatted NTFS it should mount read only but still be accessable
Did you see if its visible in Disk Utility on the Mac

 

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Maybe I can I partition my Maxtor, and have one half of it Mac-friendly?
Right now all I want to do is move stuff onto the Mac internal HD...as you may have gathered I'm a mac-retard...


...but willing to learn!

On this bit, I managed to do this before with as FireWire drive. I found the instructions online somewhere but cant find them right now, you have to be willing to get down and dirty with the diskutil command line tool in terminal on OSX to achieve it though, maybe PartitionMagic or similar on the PC can do it for you.

 

[Beanstalk]

If its formatted Fat16 or FAT32 it should mount on your machine and you should be able to read/write to the disc
If its formatted NTFS it should mount read only but still be accessable
Did you see if its visible in Disk Utility on the Mac

At work at the mo, so I'll check later to see if its visible in disk utility.
If it is visible here, is there a way of accessing the files on it?
It's definitely not visible/accessible through 'Finder'.

As far as I remember, I had no formatting to do with the Maxtor when I used it the first time...just plugged it into the PC and worked fine.


This is Her

250GB Maxtor 3100 External USB2 HDD, 7200RPM, Model M01H250.