I'm thinking about making the jump into buying a 20"inch imac tommorow from CompUSA but I'm going to need an XP with bootcamp if I do get one. Heres a question. Say I make a 50-100 gb partition for Windows. Will I be able to access the movie/whatever files I have on the Windows partition on OSX as well as the opposite? Or are they completely hidden from each other?
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Question about partitions
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OS X can read both NTFS and FAT32 and can write to FAT32. XP can't make a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB, so you'd have to work around that to make a larger FAT32 partition.
Windows can't see the HFS+ (Mac) partitions without MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com).
IMHO, the best solution is to keep shared files on an external FAT32 formatted drive. Or, if you're going to use XP a lot, remove OS X from the internal and have it on an external drive only.
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Windows can't see the HFS+ (Mac) partitions without MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com).
IMHO, the best solution is to keep shared files on an external FAT32 formatted drive. Or, if you're going to use XP a lot, remove OS X from the internal and have it on an external drive only.
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