[ddots-l] Re: -- SPAM --Re: SSD drives to which a Mac can't write
- From: Kevin L Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx>
- To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:03:03 -0500
Jack,
Found it. Unfortunately, there's no way to change this from NTFS to FAT32.
so, drives have to go back to the store. Sigh.
K.
On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:57 AM, Jack Conti wrote:
> under the right context key in explorerAt 04:52 AM 8/5/2012, you wrote:
>> Now sitting at my XP machine and can't find a command to reformat this disk.
>> where do I look?
>> On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> > Apparently not. But I will try reformatting as FAT 32 on my XP machine
>> > and see if can recognize read and write to it.
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On Aug 5, 2012, at 3:30 AM, Blake Hardin <blakehardin5487@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Can you not reformat the hard drive on the mac?
>> >>
>> >> On 8/5/12, Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> Had same problem with thumb drive bought at same time. Mac would not
>> >>> recognize or write to either becAuse, apparently, they were formatted in
>> >>> NTFS.
>> >>> K
>> >>>
>> >>> BTW, I'm writing here because I need this drive as the primary backup
>> >>> for my
>> >>> Pro Tools ` of a new CD.
>> >>> K
>> >>>
>> >>> Sent from my iPhone
>> >>>
>> >>> On Aug 5, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Kevin Gibbs <kevjazz@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Guys,
>> >>>> I had a very disappointing experience today. I bought a 128GB SSD drive,
>> >>>> only to learn that a Mac could not write to it. It was bad enough that
>> >>>> I
>> >>>> couldn't find an SSD drive with FireWire ports, but to find a drive that
>> >>>> could only be written to buy a Windows computer? This was absolutely
>> >>>> unacceptable. Does anyone know of an SSD drive with FireWire ports that
>> >>>> can be used by a Mac?
>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone
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