Hi,
I was wondering if someone can help. I have an 80GB hard disk which I have put in an external enclosure. Currently I run win XP, but in the near future I'm looking to switch over to a PB G[5 hopefully!].
I have formatted my HD in win XP Disk management as that is only available OS to me at the moment. I originally only wanted one partition, but win XP only let me format this in NTFS and not FAT32 cos it's bigger than 32GB. So I made two partitions - One 30GB FAT32 and one 50GB NTFS.
My thinking is that when I connect this to a MAC, I will be able to both READ and WRITE to the FAT32 formatted partition.
Is that correct, can someone confirm this, of will it just READ only for both partitions, even though 30GB are FAT32 formatted?
PLEASE please advise.
Many thanks
I was wondering if someone can help. I have an 80GB hard disk which I have put in an external enclosure. Currently I run win XP, but in the near future I'm looking to switch over to a PB G[5 hopefully!].
I have formatted my HD in win XP Disk management as that is only available OS to me at the moment. I originally only wanted one partition, but win XP only let me format this in NTFS and not FAT32 cos it's bigger than 32GB. So I made two partitions - One 30GB FAT32 and one 50GB NTFS.
My thinking is that when I connect this to a MAC, I will be able to both READ and WRITE to the FAT32 formatted partition.
Is that correct, can someone confirm this, of will it just READ only for both partitions, even though 30GB are FAT32 formatted?
PLEASE please advise.
Many thanks