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<blockquote data-quote="reDORAnge" data-source="post: 490329" data-attributes="member: 38341"><p>Hello!</p><p></p><p>So I need a little advice on my external hard drive problem...</p><p></p><p>...I bought a new (maxtor) external hard and I'm going to use it mostly with my macbook pro but I also know I'm going to need to use it with some PCs from time to time and I know I have this 2 options if I want it to run on both OS:</p><p></p><p>1) I can format it in FAT and I will be able to read/write bot on mac and windows (XP)...but I'm wondering what are the downsides of FAT, like max. file size or partition size? </p><p></p><p>2) or I can format it in HFS+ and when I need to use it with windows XP I heard there is a program macdrive7 that enables it to read/write data? </p><p></p><p>Are there any other solutions I am not aware of? If you have any expirience what are the possible problems like restrictions or incompatibility? </p><p></p><p>I'm greateful for any kind of advices</p><p></p><p>P.S. Please excuse my bad english - it's not my native language.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reDORAnge, post: 490329, member: 38341"] Hello! So I need a little advice on my external hard drive problem... ...I bought a new (maxtor) external hard and I'm going to use it mostly with my macbook pro but I also know I'm going to need to use it with some PCs from time to time and I know I have this 2 options if I want it to run on both OS: 1) I can format it in FAT and I will be able to read/write bot on mac and windows (XP)...but I'm wondering what are the downsides of FAT, like max. file size or partition size? 2) or I can format it in HFS+ and when I need to use it with windows XP I heard there is a program macdrive7 that enables it to read/write data? Are there any other solutions I am not aware of? If you have any expirience what are the possible problems like restrictions or incompatibility? I'm greateful for any kind of advices P.S. Please excuse my bad english - it's not my native language. [/QUOTE]
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