Can OSX see a 500GB FAT32 drive (1 Partition) ?

[Eidorian]

Ah I wasn't aware of that.. In looking for Linux utils to write to NTFS a while back I came up woefully short. Must not have looked hard enough (or under enough rocks).

I've seen experimental NTFS write support for Linux. It's use at your own risk though.

 

[balamw]

Yes, but those drivers are technically only validly licensed when used as part of Windows. It's probably closer to the gray area of running Front Row on computers that didn't ship with it...

Exactly, a much better analogy. There's no potential DMCA issues.

B

 

[janey]

question though....

...why FAT32?

cause it's compatible with the most OSs out there.

I'd rather not use the experimental NTFS write support on linux or OS X when dealing with important files, kthx.

i've been using macdrive though, and although i'm not entirely a fan of hfs+ either, it's certainly better than fat32. but for out-of-the-box compatibility, it can't be beat.

 

[bigboy99]

Beacuse OS X cannot write to NTFS. Nor can any other OS besides Windows.

And OS X cannot delete anything from a NTSF drive.

 

[yellow]

And OS X cannot delete anything from a NTSF drive.

Which is the same as not being able to write, as a "deletion" is simply writing to the partition map, "these blocks are now free space".

 

[nylon]

So I've decided to format my 500GB drive as an HFS+ partition. Since I only use XP rarely I tried out Macdrive to access the Mac partition and it works like a charm (both read and write are flawless and there is no performance hit). I had tried to use FAT32 for the 500GB drive but OSX would not recognize it.

Additionally such a large FAT32 drive was laggy under XP. Navigating folders produced an annoying delay after opening on folder.