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Hi folks... I'm the MacBook Pro user in the house.
3 drives in the Mac Pro - One is FAT32 formatted.
It has all the shared movies/music for the house on it (PC user also uses it)
I can't access the internal FAT32 drive from my macbook pro... all on leopard, no probs in seeing the other 2 drives on the mac pro.
any solutions?

Hmm.
Can the PC see the drive?
Is the Mac Pro running Leopard?
~Lyssa

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