Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:10 am Post subject: hfs hard drive question
what's up guys? i need some help here, i have an external hard drive that i want to use to store hd movies and play it on my 360, i read that 360 reads hfs hard drives but my question is can windows xp read my hfs external hard drive if not then how do i transfer the movies from my pc to my external hard drive?
thanks for the help
I have another question, if later on I decide to go back from hfs to ntfs or fat32, would I be able to do this with windows?
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:
You'd have to reformat to ntfs, but you'll lose the data when doing that. So you'd have to backup to another drive, then copy over after formatting if you wish.
You can change file systems around pretty easily just a quick format and it can be fat32 ntfs hfs, whatever you wish really. _________________________________________________________
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:49 pm Post subject:
T-Mac wrote:
I have another question, if later on I decide to go back from hfs to ntfs or fat32, would I be able to do this with windows?
If you use a tool to format into HFC format you may need to use the same program to reformat back to NTFS/FAT etc before windows will recongnize it again.. But eitherway you should be fine.. Ive set up tonnes of video usb boxes for my customers.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:37 am Post subject:
frozenfire1 wrote:
Nope actually,
you can do it straight in windows, you just have to go into the drive management window to recognize it, then you can format it ntfs in there
From control panel (xp)
Administrative tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management
Hope this helps
Best Regards,
Frozenfire1
Well i wrote the original tutorial with ozzy and we had all sorts of trouble identify the drive once it was formatted to HFS.. If you didnt have a full version of the program we used to format to HFS is would not come up at all, but that was on a XP machine..
What did you use to format to HFS format?? I couldnt find many tools when we wrote the original tutorial and formated to HFS for the firsttime.. Vista may support it but im pretty darn sure that xp dont.
Well i wrote the original tutorial with ozzy and we had all sorts of trouble identify the drive once it was formatted to HFS.. If you didnt have a full version of the program we used to format to HFS is would not come up at all, but that was on a XP machine..
What did you use to format to HFS format?? I couldnt find many tools when we wrote the original tutorial and formated to HFS for the firsttime.. Vista may support it but im pretty darn sure that xp dont.
feel free to shoot me down bro..
I used mac drive to get it into HFS format, however after when I wanted to put it back into NTFS i used the method above, did not need to use mac drive to revert it.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:25 am Post subject:
frozenfire1 wrote:
I used mac drive to get it into HFS format, however after when I wanted to put it back into NTFS i used the method above, did not need to use mac drive to revert it.
cheers mate, just wanted to confirm for others using our tutorials.. appreciate the feedback as always. _________________________________________________________ HQ Network:
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thanks alot for the info
