Sharing external HD with PC

[smknappy]

Hi all,
Sorry if any of my questions seem simple... brand new to the scene (as in yesterday I got my first mac).
So my question is: I have a large external HD (USB 2.0 connection right now) that I was using to store lots of files on and would like to have those files available to my mac as well. Is there any way to do this or are the HD formats incompatable?
Thanks!

[7on]

We need more info than that.

Your external HD could be FAT32, NTFS, HFS, UFS, or HFS+

Are you talking about disconnecting the enclosure from the PC and hooking it into the Mac

or

Are you talking about sharing the external drive through the PC on a Network to the Mac?

if so...
What OS is your PC

[smknappy]

Sorry for the lack of info...

I believe the HD is NTFS, though I could probably reformat it if a mutually readable format exists.

Ideally I'd like to be able to disconnect the enclosure and just plug it into my Mac.

PC is running WinXP.

Thanks!

Originally posted by 7on
We need more info than that.

Your external HD could be FAT32, NTFS, HFS, UFS, or HFS+

Are you talking about disconnecting the enclosure from the PC and hooking it into the Mac

or

Are you talking about sharing the external drive through the PC on a Network to the Mac?

if so...
What OS is your PC

[Lanbrown]

Do you want any peecee being able to read it?

How large is the drive?

This software may help you depending on what you want to do.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

[smknappy]

Drive is 200GB... I couldn't find any mention of size limitations on MediaFour's website so I think I'll give it a try... Thank you!

Originally posted by Lanbrown
Do you want any peecee being able to read it?

How large is the drive?

This software may help you depending on what you want to do.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

[7on]

A simpler way is to format your USB2 HD as FAT32. Panther can read NTFS, but not write to it. XP can only format 32GB FAT32 partitions, so you'll need to find a Win9x machine to format it. Unless OSX can format FAT32, but I haven't tried it.

EDIT: read that macdrive, and that seems like a better idea

[kenyabob]

Is there a mac app that will read drives from windows machine, not the other way around?