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Old November 10th, 2005, 05:09 PM
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Mac hdd interface

The question I have is will a Mac hdd interface with a PC

A little history so you will know what i want to do.First I know nothing about a mac I mean nothing I have a small shop and a guy called me and said he would like me to recover some data on a mac hdd
can i install on a PC as a D drive and copy it to another drive Thank you cody
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Old November 10th, 2005, 07:13 PM
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No. The formatting is different. Most HDDs are not formatted FAT so they are platform specific.
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Old November 10th, 2005, 08:58 PM
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Thank you Buzz for your reply cody
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Old November 11th, 2005, 09:36 PM
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No. The formatting is different. Most HDDs are not formatted FAT so they are platform specific.
FYI Buzz if the PC runs Macdrive it can read Mac HD's.
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Old November 11th, 2005, 09:38 PM
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The question I have is will a Mac hdd interface with a PC

A little history so you will know what i want to do.First I know nothing about a mac I mean nothing I have a small shop and a guy called me and said he would like me to recover some data on a mac hdd
can i install on a PC as a D drive and copy it to another drive Thank you cody
Cody,
Go here http://www.softpedia.com/get/File-ma...MacDrive.shtml
using this app means you can do what you wanted to do.
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Old November 11th, 2005, 09:42 PM
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Thank you Big Jim will chek it out cody
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Old November 11th, 2005, 10:59 PM
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Ahh okay.
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Old November 11th, 2005, 11:39 PM
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A big Thanks to Big Jim & Buzz

Have Got to do some studying on Mac when I get time the history of this is A guy called and told me he has an old Mac,the way he talked he is just useing it for word processing,wrighting a book and his hdd went down ,He has it at a Mac shop in OK.city wants me to try save data when he gets it back,Just told him I would look at it About all I know,it may be a hardware problem and wont be able to help him at all. Thanks again cody
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