HP Simplesave Desktop on Mac

[cooke98]

lol

[milly10]

I have my simplesave hard drive 1tb attached to my bell receiver. It is loaded with 200 movies. When i connect it to any computer it recognizes the hard drive as empty. Could some one help me out please

[Dramadiana]

So are we suppose to click Erase after we choose the format? And am I suppose to click on 999.5 GB HP External HDD Media or HP Simple Save. And I tried clicking on both of them and changing the format, but when I go back to either one of them, the format goes back to what it was before, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the HDD Media tab and Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) for the HP Simple Save tab. And it still doesn't work on my PC.

I first used the HP Simplesave on my Windows Vista PC and it worked fine, exactly how it was supposed to work. And then I connected it to my MacBook Pro and it gave me the option to erase the information on the HP Simplesave in order to backup my Mac. I figured that I can just back up my info from the PC again later even if I erased it. Now, it's not working on my PC anymore. I searched on the internet and it said that I erased all the HP stuff that came with the HP Simplesave Drive because I didn't need it to backup my Mac, but now I'm thinking that I deleted the stuff needed for it to backup my PC. Is there anyway I can undo this, because I need it to backup my PC first and foremost. Or can I make it compatible with both of them, because your previous suggestion didn't work, or I'm probably doing something wrong because I have no idea what I'm doing.

[sunsetsoc]

I have a question regarding this. I have an hp simple save, but I saved things on it that I want to keep. I just got a mac and want to save stuff from there too. Is there a way to have both on here? Thanks!

[moiemoie]

I had a Dell laptop that I was using SImple Save for several years so I already have a good amount of files and documents stored on the Simple Save. I recently bought a Macbook Pro and now I want to be able to save my files and documents from my Mac too the Simple Save as well, but it doesn't seem to let me do that. How can I save new files from my Mac to the Simple Save? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[FontGear]

We wrote this free Mac OSX startup app for this very issue (removes annoying "virtual cd" HP Launcher at startup on a Mac)

http://www.FontGear.net/unlauncher_v1.zip

Hope that helps

[sid85]

Thank you EricT your advise solved my problem.  I used disk utility to erase the HP simplesave drive and let the timemachine feature on my Mac to automatically connect to the HP drive to backup my data. It worked seamlessly.