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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1021650" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>If you keep it HFS, Windows out of the box can not read it. You have a few options.</p><p></p><p>First FAT32. Both OSX and Windows will both read and write to the drive with FAT32. Only downside is if you work with LARGE single files 4GB or higher each, FAT32 can not write a single file over 4GB. If that will never be an issue, FAT32 is the best way and the easiest also.</p><p></p><p>You can keep it at Mac OSX Extended (Journalized) and purchase a application for Windows called MacDrive and then it will both read and write to the OSX formatted drive.</p><p></p><p>You can also plug it into the Windows machine and format it NTFS. OSX will by default read but not write to an NTFS partition. If you are running Snow Leopard, you can easily enable R/W support for NTFS. If you are running Leopard or Tiger there is other software to enable NTFS R/W support.</p><p></p><p>If the 4GB single filesize limit is not an issue, just go with FAT32. Everything will read/write to it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1021650, member: 8287"] If you keep it HFS, Windows out of the box can not read it. You have a few options. First FAT32. Both OSX and Windows will both read and write to the drive with FAT32. Only downside is if you work with LARGE single files 4GB or higher each, FAT32 can not write a single file over 4GB. If that will never be an issue, FAT32 is the best way and the easiest also. You can keep it at Mac OSX Extended (Journalized) and purchase a application for Windows called MacDrive and then it will both read and write to the OSX formatted drive. You can also plug it into the Windows machine and format it NTFS. OSX will by default read but not write to an NTFS partition. If you are running Snow Leopard, you can easily enable R/W support for NTFS. If you are running Leopard or Tiger there is other software to enable NTFS R/W support. If the 4GB single filesize limit is not an issue, just go with FAT32. Everything will read/write to it! [/QUOTE]
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