Can only read drive on Mac...

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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I'm having a little bit of difficulty here... Someone sent me a HD to try and recover some info... So far I've tried
* Running BartPE(HD as laptop's main drive, locks up before fully loaded)
* Running Windows setup(again in the laptop, locks up when examines the drive)
* Using my USB to IDE cable(locks computers up, tried two different machines)
* Using my Macintosh(works flawlessly!)

I'm at a bit of a loss here because I have around 30GB worth of files I need to recover... So far I've not had any problems accessing the files, but what to do with them, I donno... I'm copying the files to my mac now, but I only have about 25GB free(and that's removing my MP3s and other stuff I don't need!) I'm going to burn DVDs eventually, but I REALLY wanted it to work on a computer where I could scan it for viruses...perhaps run a CHKDSK and fix the problem...

So...any suggestions to what I could do? Any good software for repairing WINDOWS drives on a mac? Or maybe some idea why it wouldn't ever work on my other machines... I'm about to make my old PIII 733 into a linux box. Maybe I'll have some luck with this drive on that machine...
 
I had a compaq that didnt work with ANY seagate HDD. sometimes its just like that. MAC Hdds cannot be used on PCs and PCs cannot be used on macs
 
oscaryu1 said:
MAC Hdds cannot be used on PCs and PCs cannot be used on macs
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Macs can read NTFS and read/write FAT32; thus they CAN read PC drives. I think you misread my question as I'm asking why can't my mac(and now my Linux system) read this drive just fine yet my Windows based systems CAN NOT.

Either way, the person I'm doing this for said just getting the data's fine. Apparently she's going to have to send the drive off for warranty purposes...
 
Seeing as you don't have enough space on your Mac system, could you not use the mac to access the drive but send the files accross your network to a machine that does have the required space?

I don't know what the other machines lock up, it could just be the Mac/unix system is more tolerant of something weird happening at the controller which would explain why Bart also locks up but it's still weird.
 
Cromewell said:
I don't know what the other machines lock up, it could just be the Mac/unix system is more tolerant of something weird happening at the controller which would explain why Bart also locks up but it's still weird.
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Yeah... I'm rather baffled but whatever... I think I got most the stuff copied over to the mac.

As for networking, I might have to, I was just trying NOT to because of possible viruses. Yes, all our computers have virus scans, but I still like limiting possible infected files to my "tester" machines.

I'll probably just burn what I have copied to the mac, I just need it elsewhere. The mac does a horrible job burning stuff...
 
Well you have as close to 0 chance as you can get of getting a virus on a Mac or other *nix system, but transfering things to windows might be a little dicey especially if she liked to download stuff from...places ;)
 
*nods* Which is exactly why I don't want to use my other systems ;) I felt safe on the mac, though. I'm burning some DVDs off it now. I found some MUCH better software than it's built in crap. She'll just get a warning that the files could have viruses ^^;
 
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