Copying files to a thumb drive formatted for Windows is slow at least when compared to copying the same files to a Mac formatted drive. Something I didn't see mentioned in the thread. The goal of all this is to give my father an easy way to back up his data files with regularity (like every time he makes a major change) and for him to be able to use both computers without major angst, which means keeping it VERY simple.Įdited 2 time(s). The bum drive must have been formatted for Mac last year on my sister's G5 under Panther, so I don't know if the Partition Map Scheme = unformatted is a result of PPC Panther formatting or a symptom of the bum drive. And the whole drive shows Partition Map Scheme: unformatted. I say this is curious because the old bum drive shows the Volume Format as MacOS Extended in the Erase panel for both the volume AND the whole drive. Get Info on the mounted volume shows MacOS Extended. For the whole drive, I get Partition Map Scheme: Master Boot Record. However, when I highlight the whole drive, the Volume Format still shows as MS-DOS (FAT).
When I highlight the volume, I get the Volume Format showing as MacOS Extended (in the Erase panel). Leopard on an Intel Mac formatted it as a Mac volume with the following curious results when viewing with Disk Utility:
OS 9 wouldn't format the USB flash drive as a Mac Volume.
FORMAT THUMB DRIVE FOR MAC AND PC PC
UINLESS if it isįormated as an HFS+ - then you'll have nothing, except the need to hunt down a Mac or goĪll those apps you mention work on the standard PC format just fine. You lose a drive - and you need it burned to a DVD. You just never know when the data that is on them is critical and Make for copying and data recovery on any standard piece of shiite PC machine. It was nuts to pay more for Mac formated floppies when the PC ones would With the exception of booting, I don't see any reason to not retain the peecee format. The Mac has been reading peecee files since the SuperDrive floppy came out (when. And that could become valuable one day for data recovery. The point being, that when you format it as a Mac, even a peecee doesn't know it has been inserted into If nothing else, FAT32 is better than nothing at all, but FAT16 is best unless being used for that idiocy to boost Vista, as if the RAM in those is faster than a standard HD, then Last edit at 05:54PM by Janit.Īlways format those as a peecee. In any case, we want to set up a new backup drive before we mess around with trying to further repair or reformat the bum drive.Įdited 1 time(s). I haven't tried running DiskWarrior on it yet because my father has the OS 9 version handy, but not the Leopard version. In OS 9, the failed drive opens to show icons etc, but also yields error messages upon dismounting. Disk First Aid chokes on it, causing it to dismount, and Super Duper can't back it up. The failed drive appears to have some kind of corruption of the file system or drive structure- in Leopard, Disk Utility sees that there are files on it, but when opened, the drive spontaneously dismounts, yielding error messages etc about bad disk ejection. Which machine should he use to format the drive? Are there any incompatibilities between the two OS's in regard to formatting for this kind of drive? We need to minimize any problems that might arise from moving the drive back and forth (and we wonder whether movement back and forth is what corrupted the first drive). He wants to format the new (4GB ) drive for Mac and will need to use it on two machines: a Lombard running OS 9.2.2 and an iMac running Leopard. My father uses a usb flash drive for backup, and is replacing it because the old flash drive has apparently failed (more below).
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