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NTFS or FAT32?
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 203586" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>I think this will help explain the NTFS Security part,</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx</a></p><p></p><p>As far as the OP's question, I would go with FAT32 as it would cause problems for me to not be able to read and write to the Windows drive in OSX.</p><p></p><p>How much are you going to be using XP on the Mac? Just for some gaming and a few things? Will you be using OSX for most of your work? If so I would go with FAT32 so at least OSX can read and write to the Windows partition. OSX can read an NTFS Partition but not write to it. Windows without an external program can not read nor write to the OSX side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 203586, member: 8287"] I think this will help explain the NTFS Security part, [url]http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63[/url] [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx[/url] As far as the OP's question, I would go with FAT32 as it would cause problems for me to not be able to read and write to the Windows drive in OSX. How much are you going to be using XP on the Mac? Just for some gaming and a few things? Will you be using OSX for most of your work? If so I would go with FAT32 so at least OSX can read and write to the Windows partition. OSX can read an NTFS Partition but not write to it. Windows without an external program can not read nor write to the OSX side. [/QUOTE]
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