“USB drive recognized but cannot see files in Window 7 Pro I installed a Seagate SATA 3.5" drive in this enclosure I got from Best Buy last night and attached it to my MacBook Air running Windows 7 using Parallels. The drive is visible in the Device Manager but when selecting it, one cannot see any files. Any thoughts?”
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Off the top of my head, I'm thinking this is a drive format problem. Macs use OS X (Journaled) drives formatted with the GUID partition table, and recent Windows computers use drives formatted as NTFS. Mac OS X reads, but does not natively write, to NTFS drives. Windows neither reads nor writes to OS X (Journaled) drives, which is probably why Windows is not reading that drive. Repartiton the drive (you can do it in Disk Utility on your Mac). With the drive connected, open Disk Utility. Select the drive in the column on the left, then click on the Partition tab. In the main part of the window, change the popup menu that says Current to 1 (or as many partitions as you want), then click the Options… button. Select Master Boot Record in the new window, then click OK. Back in the main window, change the Format menu to MS-DOS (FAT). Click the Apply button. Be aware that this will erase everything on the drive, but reformat it in such a way that it will be readable and writable in both OS X and Windows. Hope that helps…
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Sounds like you need to either format the drive accordingly or install ntsf-3g for osx. If its not formatted in ntsf but instead is formatted in fat32 then it will definitely not see the file structure.
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