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Does Mac OS X support FireWire drives formatted as a FAT32?

April 26, 2017drives FAT32 FireWire mac os x support

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Does Mac OS X support FireWire drives formatted as a FAT32?

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First we recommend Mac OS X version 10.2 (or greater) which fixes Windows file structure issues with earlier versions. Currently Mac OS X only supports FAT32 drive size Partitions up to *120GB. However if using Mac OS X version 10.1.5 in some cases will have trouble mounting a Windows volume due to a Unix legacy file for MS DOS support. This can easily be fixed by moving the file outside of the root directory in Unix which is the underlying kernal for Mac OS X. You can either move the file manually or use our automatic script application. You can download the automatic script by clicking here . To move the file manually you will need to launch the Netinfo Manager application (Applications/Utilities folder). Under Domain/Security menu, enable root user and give yourself a password (note: You will need to know the Admin password that’s logged on to Enable root user under that menu). To move the offending file launch the Terminal application. The terminal application can be found in the s