"Sharing" external firewire drive with Windows Machine

Is there a way to share my external firewire drive on my mac with a networked XP machine?

Have a look at Sharepoints for the Mac. It should provide the services you are looking for.

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    I just purchased the Maxtor Turbo III. I can read/write to/from my PowerBook to the Maxtor, but I cannot even see the drive when it is attached to my PC. I'm assuming that it the drive has been formatted for OSX but that it needs to be reformatted for PC.
    Is there a formating method that can be applied such that both Windows PC's and Macs can read and write to the drive?
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    You wrote: "Thanks, but isn't Fat32 "old technology"? And doesn't it have file size limitations?"Yes: 4 GB is the largest file size under FAT32.
    See my "Sharing a FireWire drive between a Mac and a PC" FAQ for some other ideas.
    Good luck!
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  • Cannot access shared external hard drive with other mac accounts

    I cannot access a shared external hard drive with other mac accounts (all accounts are on the same macbook Pro). The shared external drive is shared via time capsule and is connected (of course) in USB. I see well this external hard drive as a shared disk with my main account. Yes shared option has been activated with the Airport Utility .. but when I open other account these othe accounts can see the external drive but cannot access to its content that is flagged with a no way sign. Strangely enough when I close my main account and start opening a new session with one of the other account then fine I can access the external hard drive and its content .. BUT then it is from my main account than I cannot access its content the no way sign showing ..
    Looks like only one account at a time can access the content of this SHARED external hard drive .. any one as an idea on how to really make it a shared hard drive so that all accounts on the same mac can also access it ? I am at my wit ends on this case. THANKS ..

    Results of my enquiries at Apple Genius Bar .. the guys found the problem interesting. They've been unable to provide a fix neither to give any explanation as to the reason why. To be fair I was not much impressed by the technical level demonstrated ..
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  • Sharing external FireWire drive between two Mac Pros

    I know that sharing an external FireWire drive between two machines (i.e. both connected at the same time) is a very bad things as both will assume that they have exclusive write access to the drive and quite quickly write over what the other machine has just written.
    Would it be possible though to mount the drive as read-only on the first machine and in read-write mode on the second? Would this preserve integrity as the second machine would in fact have exclusive write access or would other problems arise?
    Thanks for any responses to a stupid question!
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    Mmm, Connect the drive to the private secure network Mac. Connect the two Macs by FireWire and create a network over the firewire connection, configure it to use class C addresses, ie. 169.x.x.x manually and then share the firewire drive to the other Mac (also on a class C network address over firewire).
    Both macs will still have their own ethernet network addresses and each network will not be visible from the "other" network (unless you choose to share your internet connection over firewire).
    The only caveat here is that the firewire drive will be visible to every other Mac on the secure network that you allow to connect to it (which is why I chose that one, rather than the public Mac). Or can you restrict sharing to only one network ..... didn't think so.

  • Hi, ive been backing up my computer to an external hard drive (with time machine). When i buy a new macbook will that hard drive put all my info on to the new computer?

    hi, ive been backing up my computer to an external hard drive (with time machine). When i buy a new macbook will that hard drive put all my info on to the new computer?

    When you boot the new machine for the first time, you'll be prompted to import your data from a Time Machine backup.

  • Restoring an external hard drive with time machine

    I'm having a problem restoring an external hard drive using time machine. I'm on a macbook Air Running 10.7.5.
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    I am having a similar problem.  I use a  Lacie external hard drive connected to an Airport Time Capsule via USB to store my itunes library.  Yesterday I disconnected the external drive from the ATC and connected it to my macbook pro via fire wire to transfer 40 gigabytes of media files from my laptop to the external drive directly rather than over wifi.  When I reattached the external drive to the ATC the Lacie drive didn't show up even after rebooting everything. I then disconnected from the ATC and reconnected to the laptop and now I get an error message saying the Lacie disk is unrecognizable and needs to be reformated.  The Lacie drive was being included in the time machine backups so the files should be available through time machine but I don't see anyway to access them because the Lacie disk icon doesn't appear in the time machine backups.  Is there another way to browse the files?  
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  • Share external hard drive with windows

    I have 2 pc's and a minimac.  I want to share them on my home network.  I have a new 3TB external hard drive that I want to store everything on.  I want to write to it from all computers.  I want some files to be shared such as photoshop illustrator and premeire pro from both pc's and mac.  Lastly I want to use time machine.  Am I asking too much?  The wife refuses to learn mac at this time.  Maybe in the future then I can turn the pc's into a boat anchor.

    While it is possible to do all of these things on your external hard drive after going through a few steps, you will find that after some time - Time Machine will consume all of the free space on that hard drive.
    My recommendation is that you use a seperate hard drive for Time Machine - and don't do anything else with that hard drive.
    In the meantime, you could use the equipment you have available and establish a folder on your Mac Mini that will allow you to do all of the sharing that you need.  Everything will then be archived on the external hard drive using Time Machine.
    The following Mac 101 article will get you up and running in the file sharing arena:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549?viewlocale=en_US
    Enjoy!

  • How to reestablish connection to external FireWire drive with iTunesLibrary

    Hello all. Here's the scenario I would like help with, please:
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    Thank you Airsculpture. What you laid out is the exact procedure I have used in the past. For some reason I thought switching to a new OS on a new computer might complicate things further. Glad to see that is not the case.
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  • Is there a way to backup my external hard drive with Time Machine?

    Most of the memory used on my MBP is mainly used for applications and miscellaneous things for Logic and Final Cut. I have two external HD's. To save space on the internal HD, all of my music, pictures, and videos are one my external hard drive, while Time Machine set as the other. Is there a way I can back up my external HD using Time Machine? What would even be better is if I could only select specific files (My Music, Videos, Pictures) and not everything on my one external HD to be backed up in Time Machine.

    TM can back up external HDs. If you have both of your external drives attached, go to the options in TM preferences. Be sure the data drive is not listed (this lists drives/folders to exclude from a backup). Then initiate a TM backup or wait for the hourly backup. That should back up the data drive.
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  • Why does my Mac ask for my password when I try to make a change on my external hard drive with Time Machine?

    I recently formatted the hard drive to do a fresh install of Mavericks on my Macbook Pro Retina. I then formatted my Western Digital 2 TB External Hard Drive for Time Machine. I then began storing others files and folders on the external hard drive along side the TIme Machine Backup folder. Everytime I added a folder or changed a foler name it asked for my password.
    This has never happened to me before using any other OSX.
    I apologize if this has been resolved before, I'm new to the communities and have yet to find a solution.

    It is not a good idea to be storing other Stuff on your Time Machine drive. You may need an additional separate hard drive for those things.
    Once you tell Time Machine to use a Drive, Time Machine owns the Drive. You (as a User) do not have permission to put things there. If you insist, it will do it, but wants your Admin password to do it.

  • Problems sharing external hard drives with Lion

    I have 2 external hard drives connected to my imac. I had no problem sharing and accessing my external drives on other computers (pc & mac). Recently I just upgraded my mac os to Lion and since I am having problems accessing my external drives on my PC (windows 7).
    On my PC in the shared folder I can see the external drive folders but I am getting an error code when I try to open them. I have no problem accessing my imac folders on my PC, just my external drive folders.
    I would like some help because it would be nice to access them wirelessly on my PC without having to disconnect them from my iMac.
    Rome.

    My external hard drive was formatted in the FAT32 format--my iBook had no trouble reading or writing on this drive, and neither did my family's Dell deskop.
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    Formatting my drive was such a pain--and time consuming--that I didn't bother to format the remaining 30 or so gigabytes.
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    Programs exist for Windows machines to allow them to read a HFS (Mac-formatted) volume. If you want to be able to use all space possible on the hard drive, purchasing such a program may be your best option.

  • Backup External Hard Drive with Time Machine

    I have several external hard drives and am wondering if I can use Time Machine to backup External Hard Drive #1 on Hard Drive #2? Or is it only possible to backup your Main Machine on an External Hard Drive?
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    These issues with non-apple format drives that you mention, would they concern the dedicated Time Machine external hard drive, the external hard drive one is looking to backup, or both?
    What are the issues raised? My current 500GB external hard drive is FAT-32 and I want to use an additional 500GB external hard drive [fresh out the box so I can determine whatever format it is fairly easily] as the dedicated Time Machine backup. Would you suggest reformatting my 500GB FAT-32 drive before initiating the new drive as the dedicated Time Machine backup? It's possible to do so, but would take quite some time. Also, this may move into a different subject, but I enjoy being able to share files with a PC with Windows XP using my external hard drive; would any of the formats you mentioned as being Time Machine-safe allow me to continue to do so?

  • Can I boot to an external hard drive with Windows OS installed on it to play games?

    Hello,
    I am getting a Mac in the near future for work, and was wondering if it was possible to take my current PC's hard drive and connect it to the Mac with the high speed thunderbolt cable, then book to the external hard drive to play games in windows. In my research I have not seen much about this. I understand that BootCamp works, and am willing to do this, but with the new Macbook Pros that were released, there is very little storage space for two partitions.
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  • Sharing External Firewire Drive

    Hello all,
    I just received a new Maxtor One Touch 3 Firewire 400 500GB external hard drive for christmas. My wife and I are recent Mac converts, having sold off 5 PCs to purchase my iMac, and her Macbook. Now my dilemma is this. We both want to use the external drive to backup our files. I have the drive plugged into my iMac via Firewire, and it is already set-up to backup my drive once a week. I was wondering if there is a way for her to access the drive through our airport network and back-up her files. I have my computer enabled for file sharing, is there anything else we need to do??

    Welcome to Discussions - You need to partition the drive using Disk Utility> Mac OS Extended Journaled, otherwise backing up your wife's data will overwrite yours. Make sure each partition is at least the size of the HD on each machine.
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  • Reformat external hard drive for Windows machine using disk utility

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