I own an I-O Data HDCN External Hard Drive that I bought in Japan and use on my MacBook. When I bought the hard drive, it said that I can use it both on Windows and Mac systems. I’m having a problem now though which is that it works perfectly fine on my Mac but if I try to plug it into other computers or laptops that run Windows on it, it shows up in the Device Manager, but doesn’t show up in My Computer, so there’s no way to actually access the contents of the drive. I checked the permissions on the hard drive through my Mac and changed it so that it’s both readable and writable to anyone, but it still doesn’t work. Is there anyway that I can fix this problem at all?
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Did you check to see if disk management can ’see’ the drive? If it can then it is most likely caused by partition and/or formatting information. I took a disk drive out of a recordable free-view box and placed in into my PC Windows XP computer and the computer did the same as your PC computer – it didn’t ’see’ the drive in MY Computer or Windows Explorer. Disk management recognised the drive and the partition but the computer did not recognise the format of the disk. I am told that the Mac computer can recognise the FAT32 format but that does not mean that the Mac computer automatically formats the drive to FAT32. Did you format the drive using the Mac Computer? If you did then perhaps you could copy all the files that are on the external drive to the Mac computer and then use the PC to re-format the drive to FAT32.
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