Hi everyone, basically I bought my Mac a few weeks ago and this is the first time I have used a Mac, had been running on PC before. I connected my external hard drive a few days ago and it said that the hard drive was not formatted with the Mac I could only view not view and 'read'. I therefore looked up on the net how to format on Mac and stupidly followed some instructions which somehow led me to erase all my data. I now have lost all my films, music and work that I had on there and have no idea how to retrieve it. I was wondering if anyone knew a way of getting most if not all my stuff back and I would be most grateful to anyone that could assist me in doing so. Thank you.
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Jump to Post>it said that the hard drive was not formatted with the Mac I could
>only view not view and 'read'.
Yup. That means your hard drive was using Windows' NTFS filesystem, for which Mac OS X has read-only capabilities. If you wanted to give yourself the ability to write to …
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