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Buffalo External 1tb

Feb 17, 2011 5:32AM PST

I have encrypted this external on my windows xp laptop not realising that if you want to use on other PC's & Mac Pro especially "Mac Pro"
I have a mac pro laptop the problem I got is that the Mac wont read the files in the external ,it appears but cant get into the files - does not allow me to enter the PASSWORD
HELP!!!!!

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Encrypted?
Feb 17, 2011 5:35AM PST

I wasn't aware that Apple Macs could recognise Windows files, and vice versa.

Why don't you decrypt the drive from your Windows system?

Mark

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Already Tried That
Feb 17, 2011 8:29AM PST

All I have is just music and video clips stored in the Hard Drive that I want transfer to my Mac Pro Laptop ,I have tried decrypt the drive this pos up " Could not open file stopped "
I use the Mac for all my Music editing and all that ,What I really want to do is use this Hard Drive for back up to my Mac and also be able use the hard drive with out any trouble.

Tim

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Re; encryption
Feb 17, 2011 10:44PM PST

I'd delete partition on that external drive and make new unencrypted ones to copy your data to.

Kees