Did you get the drive from an authorized Apple store or reseller like Best Buy?
Stories like this make me wary of ever switching over. Apparently the Apple universe is still a closed one in some ways.
At 11:23 AM 8/5/2012, you wrote:
Need a drive that reads/writes Pro Tools Mac OSX. Archive=45GB. Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 5, 2012, at 5:07 AM, George Bell <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Hi Kevin, > > I don't believe you said which op system you have, but below is for > Windows 7 which I copied from Help. >> You might want to consider Dropbox as a possible off-premises backup> for important files. 2Gb is free, and this can increase if you can > persuade friends to install it too. > > George. > > To format a hard disk partition with FAT32 > Click to open Computer Management. If you're prompted for an> administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide> confirmation. > > In the left pane, under Storage, click Disk Management. >> Right-click the partition you want to format, and then click Format.> > In the Format dialog box, under File System, click FAT32, click OK, > and then click OK again. > > Note > If the partition you want to format is larger the 32 GB, the FAT32 > option will not be visible. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin L Gibbs > Sent: 05 August 2012 09:53 > To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: SSD drives to which a Mac can't write >> 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 Rchive 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. 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