Comments on: Why can’t I put my files on my new hard drive? http://blog.shoap.com/2007/10/15/why-cant-i-put-my-files-on-my-new-hard-drive/ Shoap Technical Services on technical writing, business, and technology Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: daniel http://blog.shoap.com/2007/10/15/why-cant-i-put-my-files-on-my-new-hard-drive/#comment-1 daniel Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:59:38 +0000 http://blog.shoap.com/2007/10/15/why-cant-i-put-my-files-on-my-new-hard-drive/#comment-1 Just wanted to add that we discovered that a brand-new Mac mini running a beta copy of Mac OS Leopard is able to read and write to the NTFS-formatted partitions on the drives. I'm not sure if this is true for other versions of OS X, but I figured it would be useful to point out (since it makes the file system on the drive a non-issue). Also, if you find that your Windows computer is unable to open a USB drive after doing partition-and-format type work on external hard drives, make sure your issue is not due to drive letter conflicts. After struggling with the issue for a few minutes, I realized that the network drive on our client's corporate network uses the same drive letter that the machine was trying to assign to my USB key. This is something fairly easy to fix with the Windows disk management utility, but it took me a while just to identify the problem... Just wanted to add that we discovered that a brand-new Mac mini running a beta copy of Mac OS Leopard is able to read and write to the NTFS-formatted partitions on the drives. I’m not sure if this is true for other versions of OS X, but I figured it would be useful to point out (since it makes the file system on the drive a non-issue).

Also, if you find that your Windows computer is unable to open a USB drive after doing partition-and-format type work on external hard drives, make sure your issue is not due to drive letter conflicts. After struggling with the issue for a few minutes, I realized that the network drive on our client’s corporate network uses the same drive letter that the machine was trying to assign to my USB key. This is something fairly easy to fix with the Windows disk management utility, but it took me a while just to identify the problem…

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