hard drive for use with MAC and PC

[808]

i know i know...

maybe im offending some purists here, but i want to be able to set my external hard drive to be recognized by both my powerbook and friends' PC's.

i have a seagate hard disk and a metal gear box case w/ usb 2.0 and firewire ports.

anyone know how i can configure this drive?

thanks,

808

 

[grapes911]

Just format it with your mac for MS windows (or something similar). Disk Utility (in the utilities folder) will do this.

 

[mkrishnan]

Just format it with your mac for MS windows (or something similar). Disk Utility (in the utilities folder) will do this.

Or if you format it from the Windows machine, make sure its FAT32 and not NTFS.

 

[grapes911]

Or if you format it from the Windows machine, make sure its FAT32 and not NTFS.

You can, and it probably will work. But you are better off using the mac to do the job. I've heard of a few occations where macs don't read data correctly from windows formated fat drives. I can't say I've seen the problem first hand, but I have heard it from multiple sources.

 

[mixylplik3]

"Mac"

 

[mkrishnan]

"Mac"

Well, it could be an NAS hard drive!

 

[808]

muchas gracias

thanks!

i was able to do format using ms dos in disk utility
and now my external HDD is bi-


808

 

[Balin64]

thanks!

i was able to do format using ms dos in disk utility
and now my external HDD is bi-


808

"Bi"

What a whorish drive.

 

[topicolo]

Fat32 doesn't process files that are bigger than 4gigs properly so those *ahem* dvd disk images that you procured won't work right. Another way to approach it would be to format the drive as a mac HFS+ drive and get MacOpener for windows

 

[mkrishnan]

"Bi"

What a whorish drive.

Hey now, just cuz it's attracted to both Macs and PCs doesn't make it a whore! You take that back!