Hello, just found this forum and it looks awesome! = ) I just switched and have copied all my personal files off of my external drive I had used for my pc laptop (NTFS format) to a temporary folder on my new Mac. The external drive was read only because of it's NTFS format and I now wish to format to use as storage and backup of the new Mac. I won't be running any OS off the drive or anything, just storage (including my iTunes library) and backup. I'm just not sure which format to use for the drive now? My options are...
Mac Os Extended (Journaled)
Mac Os Extended
Mac Os Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Mac Os Extended (Case-sensitive) and
MS-DOS (FAT)
If I'm going to just use the drive for storage and backup, and I guess later on sharing some files with the old pc laptop would be nice. But probably just over the network, not by connecting it to the pc laptop. Which format would be best? Thanks in advance for any input. I searched but didn't find much on the different formats other than somebody mentioned (Journaled) sounded like it was to run an OS off the drive.
thanks!
Mac Os Extended (Journaled)
Mac Os Extended
Mac Os Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Mac Os Extended (Case-sensitive) and
MS-DOS (FAT)
If I'm going to just use the drive for storage and backup, and I guess later on sharing some files with the old pc laptop would be nice. But probably just over the network, not by connecting it to the pc laptop. Which format would be best? Thanks in advance for any input. I searched but didn't find much on the different formats other than somebody mentioned (Journaled) sounded like it was to run an OS off the drive.
thanks!