Hard drive trouble please help!

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when i connect my portable hard drive to a PC i can copy files too it, but when its connected to a mac, i can take files off it but cannot copy files from the computer to the hard drive.

how can i fix this, laptop memory if full so after assistance please!
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  • Profile picture of the author burton247
    I can only suggest running a filesystem check on it or getting your data off another way and reformatting. A few weeks ago a friend had an issue with his HD, it wasn't readable by osx or windows. Luckily I could read it in linux, get all the data off and reformat.

    I suggest running chdsk on it from within windows CHKDSK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    or fsck from within Linux/osx Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck

    If you cannot repair it, get a bootable linux CD, and copy the data off the hd onto your mac. then reformat and put it back on. Could always ask to borrow a drive/computer if you have no space on either computer
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    • Profile picture of the author davis cup
      It could be due to some incompatibility issue. Get Linux to resolve the issue.
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