[muglo] Re: iBook G3 and external Windows HD
- From: Leith Peterson <leithriver@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:33:05 -0400
Thanks to Scott Strawbridge and Gerhard Kuhn for your responses on
this. Also to Tee Cashmore, who gave me some advice by phone
yesterday.
The Windows external drive I was trying to transfer files to was
formatted in NTFS, so I could only transfer files from it, but not to
it. The IT rep reformatted the drive in FAT32 format, and now I can
transfer files to it. He said FAT32 is an earlier format.
Leith
>That should work fine but it might be slow as the G3 iBooks have USB
>1.1 ports and that may not be a problem as most Word documents are
>of manageable size. I do this type of thing occasionally and if the
>files are too large to e-mail I burn them to CD and use the two foot
>network.
>
>Gerhard
>
>
>On Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at 02:40PM, "Leith Peterson"
><leithriver@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>I've been searching for an answer to this, but haven't found it.
>>Some of Apple's tech support options are temporarily unavailable, so
>>that hasn't helped.
>>
>>I'm using an iBook G3 dual usb (2005) running 10.3.9. Do you see any
>>problem with transferring files to a Windows external usb hard drive?
>>In other words, is it OK to simply transfer files over to it, i.e.
>>connect the external hard drive directly to the iBook? I need to
>>transfer Word documents from my iBook to be printed on a Windows
>>computer.
>>
>>I had a bad experience the other day with a Windows-formatted thumb
>>drive that was connected to my iBook, so perhaps I'm being extra
>>cautious. But better safe than sorry.
>>
>>Unfortunately, using Airport or Bluetooth in this particular
>>situation will not work. Emailing the document is also not an option.
>>
>>Please let me know. Thanks,
>>
> >Leith
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