Tyler ([info]blinovitch) wrote,
@ 2008-01-10 14:19:00
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Can a portable hard drive be formatted to work with both Windows and Mac OSes? Hex suddenly stopped being able to work with both at the same time -- it did when I experimented. I swear to god, Hex totally was able to store a file put on it by Holly and then Ziggy copied it over.

So now I'm thinking about a portable hard drive by Seagate or whomever. I really don't want to leave my music collection behind or go through a stack of DVDs to transfer it all.

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[info]indefatigable42
2008-01-10 07:29 pm UTC (link)
My sister was told to format it as FAT32 and it would work. If you're formatting it on Windows you need a third-party formatting utility, because the built-in one will only format a drive up to 32 GB as FAT32.

If you format it on a Mac, the formatting option you should choose is MS DOS.

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[info]beagley
2008-01-11 02:26 am UTC (link)
I think your other commenter has the way it "used" to be.

Here's the way it has always worked for me:

If you format the drive for Windows, and then plug it into a Mac, you'll be fine. The Mac will read it hunky -dory.

If you go the OTHER way...

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[info]beebleblog
2008-01-11 12:08 pm UTC (link)
FAT32 is the best solution as long as you never have a file over 2GB in size, since FAT32 can't even understand those.

NTFS cured that, but for some angering reason it's *still* read-only when mounted to Mac OS, even in Leopard.

So I just use Mac format and got MacDrive for Windows, so my Mac disks just show up fine and readable/writeable.

If you use BootCamp, MacDrive will make the Mac partition available to you when you're booted into Windows, so you can have a small Windows boot partition and just use the Mac one to store your documents.

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