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plugged ext. HD into mac, now it asks to be formatted on PC

by markfb9 Apr 6, 2009 2:07AM PDT

i plugged my external hard drive that i always use on my various windows pc's into a friend's mac to transfer a file. the mac never recognized it. then when i plugged it back into my pc, it's recognized but it requests formatting before i use it. i never did anything to it when it was plugged into the mac. did i really lose everything on the hard drive? is there any way to recover it? thanks so much!

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Apr 6, 2009 3:40AM PDT

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