Mac newbie! External hard disk woes

TweedleDum · 13 Sep 2007 at 12:16

Hello boys and girls.

I have just bought a macbook and new nano. I am trying to copy my itunes music from my PC to my macbook using an external hard disk. Its an IDE caddy with an 80gb drive in. Its formatted as NTFS, which i understand macs can read but not write to. However, when i plug the drive into the macbook, nothing happends. What am i doing wrong? The drive is externally powered by the way!

Thanks.

InsomniaCalls · 13 Sep 2007 at 12:29

Have a look in Disk Utility through Finder > Applications > Utilities.
Does the disk show up on the left hand side?

TweedleDum · 13 Sep 2007 at 12:35

Nope, it doesnt show up...

TweedleDum · 13 Sep 2007 at 13:28

any other suggestions anyone ?

Will_3rd · 13 Sep 2007 at 13:38

It might need external power is it a laptop HDD?

TweedleDum · 13 Sep 2007 at 13:43

TweedleDum said:
The drive is externally powered by the way!

No its not a laptop hard drive.

Logan09 · 13 Sep 2007 at 13:45

Since the 10.4.10 update certain USB caddies seem not to work with OSX. I have an Icybox 2.5" caddy that doesn't work at all now, however swapping the drive to another caddy sorts the problem out.

If you have another caddy, try sticking the drive in that and see if it works.