Bootcamp, where to store itunes?

[ccoleman88]

Hello,
I am recieving my new macbook tomorrow and will be bottcamping xp on it. I am wondering how i can store my .mp3 files so that they are accessible on both partitions.

 

[kastenbrust]

Hello,
I am recieving my new macbook tomorrow and will be bottcamping xp on it. I am wondering how i can store my .mp3 files so that they are accessible on both partitions.

You can create an empty partition on your hard drive, as big as you need for all your mp3's (5GB maybe?) and format it in FAT32, then both Windows and Mac will have access to it.

 

[ccoleman88]

fat32 is limited to 32g though right?

 

[sickmacdoc]

fat32 is limited to 32g though right?

Only when formatted on a PC. You can format any size partition to MS-DOS (FAT) (as it calls FAT32) in Leopard's version of Disk Utility.

 

[themoonisdown09]

Something else to remember with the FAT32 format. You can't have any files larger than 4GB on it. If you try to copy over something larger than 4GB, you will get an error.

I don't think you will have this problem if you're just using it for music, but it's just something to think about.

 

[bstreiff]

Well, any size up to 2TB, at least. Probably not too huge of a deal for a Macbook, but could conceivably be an issue with external drives (perhaps an external multiple-drive enclosure).

The 32GB cutoff point in Microsoft's disk formatting tools was established because the larger the volume is, the longer it takes to compute free space... which happens whenever you use the 'dir' DOS command.

 

[ccoleman88]

good lookin out guys!