firewire hard drive

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frank

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Hello,

I have a little problem, At my school they have mac and at my home i have a pc. Is my firewire harddrive will be transparent between the two platforms or i need to do a tricks to be able to make my hardrive readable on mac/pc.

Thx for the help!
 
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well the most obvious is both need a firewire port. second, make sure when you format the drive, make sure its formatted for Mac/PC hybrid (HFS+/FAT32) . Then you shouldnt have any problem accessing the drive
 
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MacAddikt said:
First, welcome to Mac-Forums!

well the most obvious is both need a firewire port. second, make sure when you format the drive, make sure its formatted for Mac/PC hybrid (HFS+/FAT32) . Then you shouldnt have any problem accessing the drive
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How can i format a drive for both Filesystem ?
 

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