MacBook Pro 1TB External HD

[Frankie.]

I bought a WD 1TB external hard drive and in OS X it pulls up my external HD fine but when I switch over in Bootcamp to Windows 7 it doesn't see it. I realize that Mac & Windows hard drive formats are different. Is there a way to update/change/modify so I can see my HD in both Operating Systems?

I had the idea to partition the hard drive in half, one side for Mac, one for Windows but that's kind of a pain in the ass when I need some stuff for both systems.

Any ideas?

 

[miles01110]

You can format it as NTFS and it will be seen by both systems if you use MacFuse or NTFS-3G on the Mac side.

 

[Frankie.]

I will lose everything I have on it right now though, wouldn't I?

 

[neenja]

I will lose everything I have on it right now though, wouldn't I?

yup. =\

 

[sjinsjca]

I need some stuff for both systems.

Any ideas?

How much stuff?

You could use DropBox, works great and is cross-platform. I "bridge" several computers this way. Each machine always has a folder containing the latest copy of my work files regardless of which machine I was using at the time of last update, and my files are also securely available on the Dropbox website, where they're versioned so I can revert if I screw something up. That has saved me several times. A 2GB workspace is free, and bigger accounts are inexpensive.

It really is a wonderful thing, and their customer service was amazingly responsive the one time I had a question. Full disclosure: I'll get some free extra space if you sign up for a free or paid account at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ3NzczNjk ...but I'd recommend it even if they didn't offer that referral bonus. It may be a great answer to what you want to do. It's a clever service built on Amazon EC2's cloud infrastructure and has been 100% reliable for me in over a year of use.