Quick Hard Drive Format question...

[arcsbite]

So I'm using 10.4.7. and I'm using XP on both boot camp and parallels..

thing is, what should my external drives be formatted in?

I know XP can't read or write to Mac formatted disks...
I think Macs can only read NTFS
and FAT 32 can only hold files upto 4GB (A lot of the files I'm transferring are about 6GB.

any advice?

cheers.

 

[Mechcozmo]

I'd get MacDrive and keep your externals as HFS+. You might find it hard to use with other WinXP computers, though. Linkety

I suppose you could partition your external to have a small FAT32 partition (to hold the MacDrive installer) and the rest of it as an HFS+ partition.