General Discussion - Mac HD in PC

Author

Mac HD in PC

oldsaltdoggie

2002-01-20, 8:30 pm

I wanted to know how and if it is possible to put a hard drive from a Mac into a PC?
I have tryed and I can't see the drive in My Computer, but can see it everywhere else!!
I want to be able to format it so I can use it!!! Disk Manager lets me see it as an unallocated disk but won't let me do anything to it!! I'm run Win2KPro. Just so you know someone gave me a couple of Macs and I wanted to make good use of some parts!!

Just to let anyone that reads this know I figured out how to do this

kussnyder

2002-01-21, 1:46 pm

I tried this same thing with my 95 machine & didn't even get that far. I'm thinking you can't, but I could be wrong.

thecomeons

2002-01-21, 4:01 pm

have u tried a lowlevel format from your cmos? i would imagine a mac hd is physically same as a pc hd, just uses a different file system. maybe u need a scsi utility to format it.

Nicole

2002-01-21, 4:03 pm

SCSI hard drive, right?

A Mac utility called PC Exchange will format DOS floppies hard drives, etc. If you have OS 7.5 or later on one of the Macs, it should be built-in.

oldsaltdoggie

2002-01-21, 8:34 pm

Thanks for the reply But as I said in my post I fixed this. It was staring me right in the face!!! when I installed the hard drive a wizard kept popping up asking me if I wanted to "Write Signature" so I did and know it works!! this is some thing that I never learned about, or heard about!!

PotatoHead

2002-01-21, 10:43 pm

Interesting, I guess I learn something new everyday.

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