external hard drive question

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guelah75

19-01-2006 22:50:17

can i get a HD and partition it so that half can be used by a windows computer and the other half can be used by a mac?

xigxag

19-01-2006 23:42:46

well, Tiger can read NTFS partitions (which xp uses) but can't write to it (yet). I bet there is a 3rd party driver that lets OSX write to NTFS.

You could probally do a 50/50.

Another option would be to partition the external drive as FAT32, as then both XP and OSX could read/write. Only problem with that is the 32GB partition limitation, so you would need to make multiple partitions.

Yet another option is format the drive as mac HFS+ (which has no such limitations) and then get MacDrive for the PC, which will allow it to read HFS+ partitions.