win 7 can't access ext hdd

5adisticD3vil

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i have a WD 1TB external hdd in a usb dock which i used to store movie, mtv and songs when i'm using window XP

upgraded to window 7 64bit a while ago

now i can't access this ext hdd when i connect it to win 7 desktop
keep prompting me to format drive to use it

this WD ext hdd is working fine, i connect to my macbook and i can access all the stuffs inside

eh so what is the problem here??

pls help noob here.
thank you, xie xie, gam xia :s12::s12:
 
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Was the HDD previously formatted for Mac use, and you had 3rd party software installed on WinXP to support the mac file system?
 
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