formatting external drive for pc/mac use

[jelloshotsrule]

what format would one format their firewire drive with for use with both pcs and macs? it came as fat-32...

i'm asking for a friend so if i need more details let me know. else, thanks in advance.

ps. the mac uses os x... not sure which version of windows he's running... probably 2000 or xp....

 

[jelloshotsrule]

seriously. some of you nerds must know this.

rownerd????

 

[garzy]

it needs to be formatted as FAT32

NTFS is a newer file system for windows BUT WILL NOT WORK in OSX

the only limitation of FAT32 i can think of that really matters is that the largest partition can only be 32gb

 

[iJon]

hmm i didnt know fat 32 will show up in os x, thats interesting. i always format mine as hfs+ and i use macdrive on my pc, its great.

iJon

 

[Kwyjibo]

yeah your best bet is to use HFS+ and PC software. I know osx can read HFS+ partitions and pretty well but the problem exist if you want to boot into osx then the whole drive must be hFS+. Also depending on if you have a netowrk, i have sharepoints setup so i can easily see my backup hardrive on my network and then samba reads the HFS+ volume

 

[garzy]

what is this pc software you talk of???
im curious, id rather format this external drive i use for both platforms as HFS+ instead of FAT32

 

[iJon]

its calleed macdrive 5, its by mediafour

iJon

 

[garzy]

nice software, but i cant install this on every pc i use my drive with