winows/OSX and Music

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Is it possible to have music on my Hard drive and listen to it from both OSX and windows.(not at the same time of course) Or would each OS need its own music folder?
 
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I don't know as I have not tried it nor can I because I don't have an intel mac, but if you put a third partition on the drive and format it in FAT22 (a format that both mac and windows can see and write to) put all your music on that partition, I think you should be able to listen to your music regardless on what operating system you are running.
 
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Yeah I've been wondering about this as well. I have a few seasons of Lost and 24 from the iTMS as well as my music collection; it'd be nice to put it on my 2.5" backup drive for access from both systems. When my new hard drive comes in I'll give it a try!
 
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Yeah using a fat32 shared data partition is what I do for windows and linux on my pc and it works great. The only issue with a mac with os x and windows is since the traditional bios and open firmware use different methods for partitioning hard disks, when you "combine the two" (i.e. the function of boot camp) you encounter some pretty strict limitations as to how many partitions you can have. I'm pretty sure you can have up to three though, so you should be good. This is one of the issues regarding tripple booting on these macs; you can't have enough partitions for a separate linux swap partiton, you have to use a swap file on the main partition instead. Blame windows, of course, for still using the relatively outdated bios.
 
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From OS X it is easy. It can read the NTFS partition which is all it needs to do. From XP it is much harder. There is software that will allow it. I do agree the best way is a FAT32 partition to share between them.
 
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Would TransMac help? I use it to burn .img's on my pc (no burner on my mac). It is a program which reads mac volumes from windows.
 

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