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albertlv


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Hello, I have a Western Digital 250 GB external harddrive, USB powered, that I which to use on my Windows Vista and my Mac OS X computer. I want to be able to read and write on both operating systems, but so far, I haven't been able to do so. I'm new to mac so i would like some help on this topic. Right now, i can only read and write on mac, because of the format the HDD is using right now. I want to be able to use it on both. Please help me... thanks!
 
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Your Mac's Specs
MBP : 2.4GHz : 2GB RAM : 256MB VRAM : 160GB HDD
FAT32 will allow it to be read/written to by both systems (it's marked as MS-DOS format in Disc Utility).
 
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fat32 won't let you have files larger than 4 gb i think...which render the fs useless to me...can osx read ntfs? can vista read hfs?
 
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kalleball said:
fat32 won't let you have files larger than 4 gb i think...which render the fs useless to me...can osx read ntfs? can vista read hfs?
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OS X can read NTFS, but it can't write to it. As far as I know Vista hasn't got a clue what HFS is.
 

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