Pretty much every OS can read FAT. So simply format it as such. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Josh Coffman wrote: > I've been using the tuxera ntfs driver for mac for a long time, but before > that it would mount it as read only I think. May have had to manually mount > it though. > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:42 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm not an Apple guy so I thought I might ping fellow Pluggers who may be >> familiar with Mac OS. >> >> My son needed to provide a USB flash drive to his science teacher so the >> teacher could copy several videos to the drive. The teacher who uses an an >> Apple (don't know make/model) returned the drive as "unreadable" when I >> know the device works fine. I gave him another one and things worked ok. >> After the fact, I noticed that the "bad" flash drive was formatted NTFS, >> while the one that worked was formatted FAT32. >> >> Can Apple OS read a USB flash drive if it is formatted with Windows NTFS >> filesystem? Or must it be formatted FAT32? >> >> Thanks, >> Peter >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com