Does anyone know if i hooked up a windows formatted firewire hard drive with files on it to my ibook, would my ibook be able to pick it up and mount it so I could copy files off of it?
Does anyone know if i hooked up a windows formatted firewire hard drive with files on it to my ibook, would my ibook be able to pick it up and mount it so I could copy files off of it?
Defined "hooked". Via IDE, USB, or FW? If the drive is FAT16 or 32, you can read it. If NTFS, then no.
Like klinux said, you can definitely mount PC Firewire drives as long as they are formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. OSX does not support NTFS, which is the default for Windows NT/2000/XP.
You can, however, mount your NTFS drives if you share the device in Windows, and connect via your network. OSX uses SAMBA (SMB) to connect to Windows shares.
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Originally posted by Lil.Tope
Hi all,
Does anyone know if i hooked up a windows formatted firewire hard drive with files on it to my ibook, would my ibook be able to pick it up and mount it so I could copy files off of it?
Plug it in and find out... my guess would be yes.
Originally posted by klinux
Defined "hooked". Via IDE, USB, or FW? If the drive is FAT16 or 32, you can read it. If NTFS, then no.
Like klinux said, you can definitely mount PC Firewire drives as long as they are formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. OSX does not support NTFS, which is the default for Windows NT/2000/XP.
You can, however, mount your NTFS drives if you share the device in Windows, and connect via your network. OSX uses SAMBA (SMB) to connect to Windows shares.