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04-15-2007, 10:55 PM #1
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What is the best way to format a Airport Disk?I purchased a Airport Extreme Base Station recently and as well have a Western Digital 500MB My Book drive. I will be using it with the base station but it's not formatted and I wondered which way I should format it. Not knowing better since I have a Windows XP machine I formatted it in NTFS and realized later it won't work with this. It seems I need either Fat32 or HFS+.
Which format is best for me to go with? I know if I use Fat32 unlike HFS+ I can use it directly on a WinXP machine but most of the time if not all I will use it through the Airport Base Station and those few times I won't will hook it up directly to my MBP. When I format what is the best way to go about formatting the drive?
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04-15-2007, 11:00 PM #2
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Most likely FAT32, but your airport manual probably has a recommendation for that.
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04-18-2007, 12:49 AM #3
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04-18-2007, 12:55 AM #4
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You answered your own question...Fat32
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