jpeg storage from mac and windows xp: will this thing work for someone who is completely a plug-and-play gal?
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This particular drive is an EARS drive meaning that it is an advanced format drive which won't run by default in XP. Western Digital has set up a page to help users get it working in XP however I'm not an XP user so I'm not sure how straight-forward the steps are. You might be more interested in a EADS drive which should work fine out of the box for you. Unfortunately the 1.5 TB EADS drive costs 99 while this 2.0 TB EARS drive costs 89.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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Yes, you should be just fine. Just dont format your usb, or else all of your data will be wiped. Your mac should be able to use the usb just as fine as windows would
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I see no reason for it not to work with xp. Plug into an unused usb port, and use the software that Seagate provides. However, it really is time to ditch xp. It was a fine OS for many years, but without MS support it is pretty much obsolete.
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I moved my pictures from XP to windows 8 with ease. Very user friendly device and great support if needed. Should be fine!
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I HAVE NO MAC FILES (it stores ipad videos)- I THINK IT WILL STORE ANYTHING. The plug in has a fan in side that makes failure less likely.ps -its bottomless
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I actually have the WD My Passport for Mac 1TB and it is functional with OS X Yosemite (version 10.10.1). I back up my MacBook Pro approx. every ten days.
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The USB drive should be recognizable by any device with a USB Port. the only thing that would be incompatible is if you have a proprietary file type exclusive to Mac trying to run it on Windows. Files like pictures, videos and such should all be fairly universal and transfer with no issues.
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PC and Mac use different file systems. It will work on one or the other but not both at the same time.
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If it worked and I don't think it would, you would be waisting about $200 dollars on functionality you don't need. Buy an Mac compatible external hard drive instead and use Time Machine to back up with it.
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Well you would have to format it to the mac format anyways, it takes seconds, drive is a beast!
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Yes. Just need to format it in a format thats appropriate for Windows. Like exFAT. There are some formats that will be read/write for both Mac/Window. These will be most versatile
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Yes, you could format it as a NTFS or FAT32. Mac (as well as Windows obviously) supports both.
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It should be, if you format it for a Mac using disk utility (HFS Journaled) it should work fine.
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I'm using it on Vista. Certain image formats seem to have difficulty copying, but .JPG is no problem. I haven't tested it with all audio/video formats but have incurred no problems.
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I'm not sure....I only remember loading mp3 and JPEG. If I can find the owners manual, I'll find out.
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We don't use any software and only use it as a dock. Had up to 6 TB drive work just fine on our Mac.