Help With Maxtor HDD

	Help With Maxtor HDD
	Discussion by ElFoReal with 9 Replies. Last Update: June 15, 2005, 3:51 pm

ElFoReal

I need some help
My problem is the following.
I`m nearly at full capacity HD wise,
and no money for new HD`s and I
remembered I had an old IMac laying
around of which the monitor is broken.
And opened my mac and ripped out it`s
HD it`s a " Maxtor 91020U3 10GB ".
I plugged it in my WinXP PC and at start-up
XP recognized it but when I went to "My Comp"
it showed my C: drive and D: drive but
the one I just plugged in which XP recognized
wasn`t there.I was expecting some trouble
but I didn`t expect that it wouldn`t even
show up.Is this because of the Mac OS that`s
installed on it and is it possible to bypass
this?I want to recover some mp3 of of it and
afterwards format it to use as storage HD,can
someone please help me with this?

ThnX in advance

El.

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

moonwitch

Hey El.
I think MacOS uses a different Filesystem as windows, which can be the reason why you can't see it. I mean, I've had a similar situation but then with linux on the other drive... So it never worked. If the FS isn't FAT32, NTFS or even FAT16, win won't find it I think... Although I also doubt it would find FAT16 LOL

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

ElFoReal

If I was to plug this drive into an mac system could I even
format it in a way that I could use it then on a win computer?

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

Klass

Right click on My Computer and select Manage

Click on Disk Managment, Then look for the Mac drive you installed. (it will not have a drive letter) You should be able to right click on the drive and create a partition or format.

Once formatted with the correct win type will it show under My Computer with a drive letter.

Hope this helps.

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

vizskywalker

If you still have your Windows XP Install Disc, you can setup the hard drive so that Windows will recognize it (even in you rcurrent computer, no need for another Mac). However, all data will be lost on the disc. Put your XP install disc into the computer and reboot, choosing to boot from the CD. Choose a new install, and when you come to the screen where you need to select a partition to install on, highlight the partition on the Mac disc (it will probably be of unknown type). At the bottom of the screen, several options will be listed, choose delete. Delete the partition and it will be listed as raw. Then select the partition and format it as NTFS, and restart the computer without actually installing Windows. That should fix your problem.

~Viz

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

ElFoReal

QUOTE (Klass)

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It shure did man ThnX
(had to let go of the mp3`s tho
ah well....)

EDIT :

@ vizskywalker thanks man had the problem solved while you were posting I guess but thanks anyway.

One!

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

Klass

If the way I provided didn't work the next option is what vizskywalker posted.

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

ElFoReal

LOL talking about delay hahaha check the post above you

ThnX again man

Thu Jun 9, 2005 New Discussion

Sadas

I think Norton PartitonMagic 8.0 could have done the job without problems

I use it when resizing, moving, deleting, formating or doing some other actions with my partitions. Really good tool.

Wed Jun 15, 2005 New Discussion

vizskywalker

Okay, to sum up so ElfoReal doesn't have to keep saying it: Klass's suggestion worked, problem solved. Keep that in mind, the simplest answer is usually the best.

ElfoReal, glad we could be of help.

~Viz

Wed Jun 15, 2005 New Discussion