abhi262 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 hi i have a problem as i have two hard drives, one for osx86 and the other for windows but i have a problem viewing them from different os's. the funny thing is that when i installed mac the first time, i was able to see my windows drive but now that i had to re install it, it can't seem to be able to see it. even in disk utility i can't see my windows drive. this is really quite annoying as tend to need to move files from my mac USB drive to my windows hard drive and at the moment i am forced to split files up to put on my memory stick aand then reboot into the other OS. thanx for any help also, does anyone know of a freeware program like macdrive that is compatible with vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted April 29, 2007 Author Share Posted April 29, 2007 ok...something weird has happened and i just booted into mac just now and for some reason i can now see my windows drives.oh well i'm not gonna complain! also, does anyone now an alternative to mac drive 7 i can use for vista to view my mac drive? thanks for anyhelp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 now, i just rebooted into mac today only to find out that i can't see my windows drive anymore. does anyone know why this keeps happening and is there a solution to this? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted May 3, 2007 Author Share Posted May 3, 2007 please could you help, i really need your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord xeon Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 well, firstly, lets get some info. 1. your mac drive is USB apparently correct? How is your windows drive connected? IDE or SATA? 2. im assuming your windows drive is formated ntfs correct? if that's the case, then mac can't read it, you'll need to use macfuse which allows osx to read/write to ntfs partions. Something i've found that's useful is have one fat32 formated drive/partition, that way both mac, and windows can see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 yes, my mac drive is usb and my windows drive is connected via sata. my windows drive has vista and is ntfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 MacFuse didn't work. After Installation, i rebooted into mac but i couldn't see my windows drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord xeon Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 MacFuse didn't work. After Installation, i rebooted into mac but i couldn't see my windows drive strange, MacFuse worked fine for me, and you should be able to at least see your vista partition. try doing this: in vista: right click on Computer => Manage => Disk Managment => right click on your C drive => Shrink Volume Choose an ammount of space to shrink the volume by. Now right click on the new volume => Format => Choose FAT32 Mac and windows should be able to read/write to that partition now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 ok i tried this, shrank off 10gb, formatted it as fat 32. booted into mac and i can't see it. i think maybe if i re-install i might be able to see it. do you think its worth having to re-install then install all my programs again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord xeon Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 the only thing i can think of is that maybe sats isnt fully supported on your mother board? try plugging the drive into a different sata port, and reboot into mac and see if it works. i kinda had that problem when i was installing osx to begin with, it would only see sata drives plugged into the port closest to my cpu, no idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 the only thing i can think of is that maybe sats isnt fully supported on your mother board? try plugging the drive into a different sata port, and reboot into mac and see if it works. i kinda had that problem when i was installing osx to begin with, it would only see sata drives plugged into the port closest to my cpu, no idea why. but if this is true how come once when i booted in mac i could see it? btw since installing mac i have not opened up my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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