heyholetsgogrant Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Can a windows formatted IPOD work with a Itunes on a mac? and can you drag and drop music from an Itunes music library on a MAC to a windows formatted IPOD? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 No, it will not work. You need to format the iPod for whichever system you are using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyholetsgogrant Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 Looking online, I am reading that MAC's will read a windows formatted Ipods, because it uses a FAT 32 file system, which MAC recognizes. The question is can you put music from a MAC on to a windows formatted IPOD? -Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Sassy Molassy Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Actually you can. The Mac OS can read a Fat32 formatted drive, so if your iPod was originally formatted on PC it should be Fat32. Windows however cannot read an HFS+ formatted drive, which is the standard for Macs. You have to set your iPod to manually sync, in order to keep it from attempting to erase the songs when you plug-in the iPod from computer to computer. This will allow you to drag and drop individual songs from ANY iTunes library (Mac or PC) into your iPod. You will not, however, be able to take the songs you have transferred from to the iPod back to the computer, without the aid of 3rd party software. Lydon, I challenge you sir, to a duel! :saber: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackest Eyes Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Actually you can.The Mac OS can read a Fat32 formatted drive, so if your iPod was originally formatted on PC it should be Fat32. Windows however cannot read an HFS+ formatted drive, which is the standard for Macs. You have to set your iPod to manually sync, in order to keep it from attempting to erase the songs when you plug-in the iPod from computer to computer. This will allow you to drag and drop individual songs from ANY iTunes library (Mac or PC) into your iPod. You will not, however, be able to take the songs you have transferred from to the iPod back to the computer, without the aid of 3rd party software. Lydon, I challenge you sir, to a duel! :saber: Well ****. I know that OS X can read FAT32. I did not realize that FAT32 is what the iPod was formatted as on a Windows machine. I thought it would be NTFS or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyholetsgogrant Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 Thanks for the help guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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