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SteveH
Hello
A friend of mine has a Win XP laptop and recently bought an external
hard-drive which is Windows and Apple compatible. He wants to store Apple
compatible music files on the external drive and to be able to listen to
those files on his laptop.
The laptop does not appear to 'see' the external hard drive, so he was
advised to format the laptop hard drive so that while he has Win XP in a
NTFS-formatted partition, he ought to have FAT32 for his Apple files/external
drive on another. Whether this initial advice was correct or not I am unsure,
but it seems a lot of trouble just to listen to Amy Whitehouse.
However, if I go to Computer Management and then Disk Management to do this,
it does not offer an option - only NTFS is available from the one-item drop
down menu.
I am not sure if he has tried to format the hard drive previously and that
this has made NTFS the only item available in the drop down menu.
Is there anything he can do to resolve his problem?
Thanks.
Steve
A friend of mine has a Win XP laptop and recently bought an external
hard-drive which is Windows and Apple compatible. He wants to store Apple
compatible music files on the external drive and to be able to listen to
those files on his laptop.
The laptop does not appear to 'see' the external hard drive, so he was
advised to format the laptop hard drive so that while he has Win XP in a
NTFS-formatted partition, he ought to have FAT32 for his Apple files/external
drive on another. Whether this initial advice was correct or not I am unsure,
but it seems a lot of trouble just to listen to Amy Whitehouse.
However, if I go to Computer Management and then Disk Management to do this,
it does not offer an option - only NTFS is available from the one-item drop
down menu.
I am not sure if he has tried to format the hard drive previously and that
this has made NTFS the only item available in the drop down menu.
Is there anything he can do to resolve his problem?
Thanks.
Steve