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bobmoore
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2006-03-26, 16:28

I plugged a USB 2 drive (that I normally use to back up my Windows XP computer) into an iBook G4. The drive mounted on the iBook normally and I could read files. But I could not write to the drive. I plugged in a USB flash drive and was able to both read and write to it.

Any ideas on why?
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2006-03-26, 16:36

Did it use NTFS? Mac OS X can't write to NTFS. It can, however, write to FAT32.
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