External HDD wont read on XP
June 9th, 2021
I have an external Western Digital HDD and I can read it just fine on my Mac. But when I plug it into my wife’s netbook…XP wont read it. Any suggestions?
Maybe it’s formatted for MAC? It needs to be FAT32 to work on both MAC and Windows
Cool. I’ll try and format it for FAT32.
You’d be best formatting it as NTFS from the netbook
and installing NTFS-3G on your MAC:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ntfs3g.html
This unlike FAT32 will allow you to store files larger then 4GB.
^ I tried NTFS-3G and it gave me a FILE SYSTEMS FORMATTER FAILED.
As said^ You should format it as NTFS from your wifes netbook!