READ ME!!! Many new mac users find they are unable to write to their external hard drive when they first start using their computer. There are 2 solutions to this problem: Either reformat the drive or purchase software below. I go through both options in this video. NTFS for MAC OS X software: www.paragon-software.com Enjoy! Feedback encouraged.
great stuff!! cheers man, great help!
@superhands1988 if you don’t like it don’t watch it mate
@ilikemymac it still didn’t need to be 9 minutes long. unnecessarily long winded
thank you so much man !!!!!
Nice vid man thanx this helped alot, im getting a hd pretty soon and its windows formated which one should i get i havnt baught yet I was thinking seagate freeagent go.
Thanks that really helps!!!! saved my life
Thank you so much! I’m new to Macs and am still using my Lenovo as my PC. I was really mortified when I tried to copy music to my Seagate 500GB (since I’m keeping my music for the Mac’s itunes on the external) and couldn’t. So I’ve had to wait a few hours for files to transfer, but it’s better this way with an easy fix. thank you again!
@AHHHjane it depends how much data you have on your original hdd but I would use about 250gb for time machine to start off with….nowadays I have a 1tb drive with 500gb for time machine for my imac. my laptop has less stuff on so I only use 250 for that…hope this helps
thanks, this worked perfectly =]
If I have a 500 gb external hard drive, how much space should I reserve for my Time Machine partition?
@mcleaver this was meant to help beginners i.e. people with very little computer experience at all so I wanted to explain everything in detail. as you can see most of the feedback has been positive but I’m sorry if this video disappointed you
Open disk utility, reformat as FAT and Bob’s your uncle. Does that take 9 minutes?
Thanks man, This was great… It helped me so much…
FAT doesnt allow files greater that 4GB to transfer
this works fine when u r dealin with data under 2gb but if you help me out on this one it would be great….. i have a video file 20gb i needed to put it on a windows comp… sounds easy rit…. no… i reformated the drive all types but at the end if its over 2gb it wont work event apple couldnt help on this one kinda sucks
hi how can we copy files from mac to ext hd ??? plz help
Thank YOUThank YOUThank YOU !!!!!!
I bought a 1TB SeaGate External Drive And it wouldn’t let me write to it but i had all my valuable windows data on it so now i have to delete everything off it and partition It so ican move all my films movies and such on from my PC THANK YOU !!!!!
thank you so much, you have saved my life at 4 in the morning, desperate in the computer lab.
For a first time user, awesome help. Thanks.
thanks for this, great explanation
i cant see my hard drive on my mac or pc! it wont even show up on disk utility on my mac. i need to have it formatted for a mac but i have no idea what to do. can someone help me?
how do i format it to FAT32
Thanks for tip!.
mine wont even show up, please help me
just switched from windows
yes you can do that