Is there any way I could share the disk drive from my mac to my laptop?

[Freeze]

Hello there blockland forums. Today I am in need of your assistance. I would like to know if there is anyway to share the disk in my disk drive of my Mac to my little windows 7 laptop. I have a disk I want to use but it's for PC and my laptop doesn't have a disk drive, my Mac does have a disk drive though. My laptop uses windows 7 starter and my mac's software is 10.4.11 (old, I know). I would prefer a free method. Thanks in advanced.

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[Major Ocelot]

I had an idea for it.. but then i though naaw it would not work

[dkamm65]

Did you try using a hammer?

forget off.

[Freeze]

Did you try using a hammer?

forget off.

[Cybertails1998]

use a crowbar

[Bisjac]

arent the same hard drive tech used on both mac and pc? i would assume you could plus either one into the other.
might have to reformat it though for it to work.

[Bonestorm]

Hmm, if you could find a USB With 2 cables you could put in both pcs and then enter driver?

[Monocle]

If you're trying to share content, you cant because macs use a different encoding type. If you're trying to use a clean drive on both, I assume you'd just have to make 2 partitions with 2 different file encoding types. :o

[Freeze]

arent the same hard drive tech used on both mac and pc? i would assume you could plus either one into the other.
might have to reformat it though for it to work.

If you're trying to share content, you cant because macs use a different encoding type. If you're trying to use a clean drive on both, I assume you'd just have to make 2 partitions with 2 different file encoding types. :o

I'm sorry but could you guys simply what you just said a bit. I amn't the most technical person so I didn't understand all of what you just said. :c

[Monocle]

I'm sorry but could you guys simply what you just said a bit. I amn't the most technical person so I didn't understand all of what you just said. :c

Essentially there's encoding types for 2 different kinds of hard drives, 1 that BIOS can read (windows and linux operating systems) and 1 that the macs can read. If you were to plug a hard drive used with windows into a mac, it wouldn't read because the files are encoded in a way that only windows and linux could read them, and vice versa with the mac style encoded devices.

Now there's partitions, which is basically splitting a hard drive into multiple pieces, so you could dual boot operating systems. If you were to make a partition for mac encoded files, and a partition for bios encoded files, you could do what you're asking.


I can't really simplify it much more :/

[Freeze]

I can't really simplify it much more :/

That's ok, I understand what you are saying now.

I am not wanting to get the mac hard drive into my laptop. I am saying something such as network sharing. I know that with some windows 7 devices you can share the computer data. So you could log onto your computer on a different computer. That's basically what I'm wanting but with mac and pc. So I could be on my laptop, put the disk in my mac, move where I want it to open through my laptop, install the disk onto my laptop and then play it. (Yes it's a game.)

[Monocle]

That's ok, I understand what you are saying now.

I am not wanting to get the mac hard drive into my laptop. I am saying something such as network sharing. I know that with some windows 7 devices you can share the computer data. So you could log onto your computer on a different computer. That's basically what I'm wanting but with mac and pc. So I could be on my laptop, put the disk in my mac, move where I want it to open through my laptop, install the disk onto my laptop and then play it. (Yes it's a game.)

Whaa..?

You gotta explain that a little better. From what I'm understanding you're wanting to do a remote desktop connection to install a game. O.o

[brickybob]

FTP.

[Monocle]

FTP.

Do you even know what FTP is?

File Transfer Protocol.

That's for uploading stuff online.

[Freeze]

Whaa..?

You gotta explain that a little better. From what I'm understanding you're wanting to do a remote desktop connection to install a game. O.o

Sort of.

You know the Windows Homegroup thing? I'm wanting something a bit like that but with more capability. If it's not possible just let me know and I'll lock this thread straight away though.