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callistris
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I recently bought a 240GB SSD and a USB3.0 caddy to put the drive in.
Connecting it up to various windows machines the drive is just recognised as a USB 3.0 device in the device list, but not as a storage device.
Connecting it to Macs, the Macs instantly recognised what the device was and it works fine.
My preference is to use it with my Macs, so its not a big issue I must sort out. Just I'm wondering if anyone knows why the Windows PC's failed to identify the drive as a storage device in the same way my Macs have?
Connecting it up to various windows machines the drive is just recognised as a USB 3.0 device in the device list, but not as a storage device.
Connecting it to Macs, the Macs instantly recognised what the device was and it works fine.
My preference is to use it with my Macs, so its not a big issue I must sort out. Just I'm wondering if anyone knows why the Windows PC's failed to identify the drive as a storage device in the same way my Macs have?
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Did you format the drive in a Mac first ?
In which case you probably formatted it to HFS which windows cannot read natively. You need to format it to FAT32 to have read and write capabilities across both OS's natively.Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0 -
+1 for this ^^^0
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Fightsback wrote: »Did you format the drive in a Mac first ?
In which case you probably formatted it to HFS which windows cannot read natively. You need to format it to FAT32 to have read and write capabilities across both OS's natively.
Nope, the drive was only connected to a Mac after trying first with the Windows PC's.
I did not format the drive in either the PC or the Mac, in the Mac the drive just showed up as an SSD.
I did wonder if the drive would need formatting first, and wasn't something I tried.
Thanks guys for your help.0 -
Did the Mac automatically format it?
Can't image an i device asking for your permission.
What is the disk format now?Move along, nothing to see.0 -
Plug it into the mac and try Disk Utility. It should tell you how it's formatted.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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It says the format is OS X Extended.0
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Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0
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I was thinking of a polite way to say this and was just going to post http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69774517&postcount=2Save a Rachael
buy a share in crapita0 -
pappa_golf wrote: »I was thinking of a polite way to say this and was just going to post http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=69774517&postcount=2
Yep formatting in windows as an automatic function wasn't present, I never checked myself and it appears the Mac took care of things.
Thanks to everyone for your helpful advice.0
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