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    External Hard Drive for Windows and Mac OS X

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by funkymankevx, Oct 5, 2006.

  1. funkymankevx

    funkymankevx Notebook Guru

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    I want to format my hard drive so I can have a partion to work for Windows and another Partion to work for Mac OS X. I'm planning on giving each a 100GB partion.
     
    funkymankevx, Oct 5, 2006
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you formatted it with FAT32 you could use it with both Windows and OS X without any problems.
     
    zadillo, Oct 5, 2006
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    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Except the file size limitations of FAT32. If that is a problem for you, I use MacDrive 6 on my Windows machine to read HFS+. That way I can format the drive as HFS+ and still read/write with both. The down side there is that it is harder to use the external on someone else's machine who does not have MacDrive.
     
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