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New 300gb External HDD, PLEASE Help me format it!
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<blockquote data-quote="Cloudane" data-source="post: 66417"><p>Yep, I got a firewire drive for xmas too (160GB) - I learned that fat32 is the way to go. You have a few options...</p><p></p><p>* Partition & format it in Windows but be stuck with a max. 36GB FAT32 partition</p><p>* Format it as "MS-DOS" (=FAT32) on the Mac but be stuck with having the whole drive as FAT32 (for whatever reason, Disk Utility won't let you format individual partitions to MS-DOS)</p><p>* Get Partition Magic for the PC and have full control - create your FAT32 partition at any size, have the rest as HFS+ etc.</p><p>* Format it all as HFS+ (Mac) and buy some software such as MacOpener for the PC to access it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cloudane, post: 66417"] Yep, I got a firewire drive for xmas too (160GB) - I learned that fat32 is the way to go. You have a few options... * Partition & format it in Windows but be stuck with a max. 36GB FAT32 partition * Format it as "MS-DOS" (=FAT32) on the Mac but be stuck with having the whole drive as FAT32 (for whatever reason, Disk Utility won't let you format individual partitions to MS-DOS) * Get Partition Magic for the PC and have full control - create your FAT32 partition at any size, have the rest as HFS+ etc. * Format it all as HFS+ (Mac) and buy some software such as MacOpener for the PC to access it. [/QUOTE]
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