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Post Date: 2011-05-03
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    Posted: 03 May 2011 at 12:46pm
I use my digital storm pc as a workstation for video editing.  We have a macbook pro on location and offload the data to a seagate portable hard drive.  It's supposed to be able to transfer information from mac to pc and vice versa. 
 
Here's a link to what I have...
 
 
The problem is having when I plug it into my pc the light turns on the drive and nothing pops up.  When I look at devices and printers i can see it in there but it's not showing up under my computer where the other drives are.  Do I need to install something to make it work or download something?  Should I try accessing it another route? 
 
Or if anyone knows an easier way to send data from mac to pc please let me know.  Thanks in advance.
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And these are really large files - Canon 5d hd video.  They take up a lot of space.
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Check what file system the drive is formated as. You need to make sure that it is in a format that both OSX and Windows will see. I know Fat32 works on both and you can make NTFS work on OSX. I am not sure if Windows will read the native OSX file format.
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Thanks for the response.  How do I check that?
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right click the drive> properties> here you will see teh file system listed along with other info.

after you format the drive you have to partion it.

right click my computer>manage>disk management>here locate teh drive in the right pan, and right click it and partition it to a new simple/basic volume.

after that left click "my computer" and you should see all your drives, including this one.

Nvidia Drivers----AMD Drivers
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