03-05-2011, 05:36 PM

I've just replaced my PC with an iMac 3.02Gb with a 500Gb hard drive, Snow Leopard. I wonder if it's advisable to purchase soemthing like a WD 1.5Tb external hard drive and have two partitions, the first partition bootable with 1Tb with Time Machine or Carbon Copy cloner and the remaining 500Gb for documents, photos and videos?

My other problem is regarding formatting to use with PC and Mac, there is a lot of advice around so I'll look into it later on.

Thanks for any help as I'm still a bit confused.

03-05-2011, 05:47 PM

As for your second problem, there is an easy answer. Format the drive you want to use for both Mac and Windows on the Windows Box as NTFS. Then download and Install a free App for the Mac called "NTFS Mounter". This will allow your Mac to write to the NTFS disc with no issues. Keep in mind that the Mac bootable partition will have to be in HFS+ though.

03-05-2011, 05:55 PM

Thanks baggss for the super quick answer. I have read about NTFS Mounter, do you mean I have to install this app into my Mac's internal hard drive?

03-05-2011, 05:59 PM

Yes. It will put an icon in the Macs menu bar that will allow to access NTFS formatted drives and write to them. OSX can natively read NTFS drives.

03-05-2011, 06:03 PM

Thanks baggss. This will make everything a lot clearer when I read other articles. My last contact with Mac is a 21-year-old Mac Plus which is still working.