OT: Can I share hard drives with a Mac system?

riredale wrote on 5/16/2004, 4:43 PM

A friend gave me a LaCie external firewire enclosure containing her 120GB hard drive that she uses on a Mac platform. I plugged it into my XPpro firewire port, and although the PC says the LaCie device is connected, no disk shows up with a drive letter.

Can this hard drive be shared with my PC?

Comments

B_JM wrote on 5/16/2004, 4:51 PM

sure -- use macdrive or any number of such products mentioned here and elsewhere many times ..

logiquem wrote on 5/16/2004, 6:05 PM

You make make things easier with fat32 HD formating. Mac and PC can access that without special soft. Otherwise, you need a Mac HFS file opener utility for PC like Conversion Plus or others.

riredale wrote on 5/16/2004, 10:33 PM

Thanks to all for the feedback. I downloaded MacDrive and I now see the files. I brought one over to the desktop, tacked an ".avi" extension on the end of it, and it imports into the Vegas timeline. Funny thing is that Vegas threw up a little note about building a proxy audio file because working with the original file would be too taxing. I never saw a note like that before. Anyway, it plays fine.

If only all the other issues on this board could be solved so readily.