Re: moving mac dos disk to a pc

blueGeezer wrote:

I formatted an IDE drive on my Mac to DOS fomat and gave it to a friend
to plug into his PC. It showed up as an unformatted drive. Is the PC
Exchange format different from FAT? Should a Win XP machine be able to
read it? Has anybody out there tried this?

I use my Mac regularly to create large FAT32 partitions - sometimes
400GB out of necessity.

When I plug them into my PC, they are recognised immediately.

Something is not being done correctly at your end.


Odie
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