External Hard drive for MAC (1 Viewer)

[Cuti]

Hey guys, maybe you will be able to help me...my brother has a apple laptop, and he needs to buy an external hard drive to back up all his designs and work etc, does he need to buy an apple made external hard drive, or can he buy any sort of hard drive?

Any recommendations/suggestions would be appreciated

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Deep C]

Any sort.

These are nice if he's keen on throwing it around a bit (and, really, who isn't?).

 

[Enron]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154465

Which is a version of that one. I use a rugged Lacie 500 GB. Works great and it being rugged means it won't break if you drop it.

 

[Fake Melo]

I have a WD my passport external hard drive. It works fine on Mac, but I can't get it to work on my Windows 7. Any idea what to do?

 

[Völler]

I have a WD my passport external hard drive. It works fine on Mac, but I can't get it to work on my Windows 7. Any idea what to do?

What format is your external hard drive formatted to? I'm pretty sure that's the problem.

Yes, go into disk utilities and make sure to format your external hard drive to a format that works on both Windows and Mac. Beware, when you format your hard drive, all your data is going to be deleted.

 

[Fake Melo]

What format is your external hard drive formatted to? I'm pretty sure that's the problem.

Yes, go into disk utilities and make sure to format your external hard drive to a format that works on both Windows and Mac. Beware, when you format your hard drive, all your data is going to be deleted.

There are three options. Which one of them should I chose?

 

[JuveJay]

On a Mac? Don't you just press a button and one appears?

 

[Völler]

There are three options. Which one of them should I chose?

First of all you should tell me the names of those options. I could say option 2, but I wouldn't really know what I was telling you to do.

When you right click on your external hard drive and click Show Info, what does it say you about your current format?

 

[Fake Melo]

First of all you should tell me the names of those options. I could say option 2, but I wouldn't really know what I was telling you to do.

When you right click on your external hard drive, what does it tell you about your current format?

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[Völler]

You are looking the wrong place. Ok, first of all, go to Finder and right click on your Hard drive and click "Info". Tell me what it says about its format.

If the format is wrong, then you have to go to "Slet" in Disk Utility under your Hard Drive. There are different options and a lot of the options should work just fine there, but take a screenshot of the available formats so I can help you choose the best one.

 

[Fake Melo]

You are looking the wrong place. Ok, first of all, go to Finder and right click on your Hard drive and click "Info". Tell me what it says about its format.

If the format is wrong, then you have to go to "Slet" in Disk Utility under your Hard Drive. There are different options and a lot of the options should work just fine there, but take a screenshot of the available formats so I can help you choose the best one.

It says "Mac OS Extended (journalført)" on format.

Do you have skype? It would be easier if you took control of my computer.

hashim.melo

 

[swag]

I hate WD drives. Those things are idiotic: they stall and disconnect even when you don't ask them to on a Mac. I've had much better success with Maxtors, the LaCie drives, and (gag) the overpriced Mac time machine drives.

 

[Zacheryah]

sell the mac

get the equivalent pc and an external hard drive

watch a youtube vid on a diffrent pc on how to install IOS on a pc.


i'm not trolling. people who know a thing or two about pc's will highly value that decision

 

[Fake Melo]

Foeller is tha boss! Thanks amico.

 

[CaesarCod]

If you want to write to/from NTFS External Drives on your mac in the past i have used an app called NTFS-3G which mounts the NTFS drive as an NTFS file system that is editable.

 

[Völler]

If you want to write to/from NTFS External Drives on your mac in the past i have used an app called NTFS-3G which mounts the NTFS drive as an NTFS file system that is editable.

Yup, the tip I gave him was similar to this. Just another app.

 

[Alexandro33]

Yeah you can connect an external Hard Drive with your Mac but i have no any idea about it that how to connect because i am not a MAC user so if your try to go to a good experienced person then i think this is good way for you...


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