Hard Drive help

[ditzy]

I'm about to buy a new Imac. (probably going to wait for next upgrade) I'll also have to install vista.
So I'm going to have to buy a hard drive to back-up my data on my current pc so I can use it on the imac. My problem is that any hard drive I get to backup the pc would have to be formatted to NTFS. Which then OSX would not be able to read. (I think)
Is there a way around this or will I have to buy two hard drives?
Thanks for answering

 

[robbieduncan]

OSX can read NTFS, but not write to it out of the box. This can be sorted with MacFUSE + NTFS3G...

 

[ditzy]

Would time capsule get me around this issue or would it still be the same?
Again thanks for answering.

 

[TJones]

You could get a single large external hard drive and create two partitions. One HFS+ for use with Time Machine and the other as FAT32 or NTFS for your Windows backups.

 

[ditzy]

Ok that sound like the way to go thanks.