Hi all - I am going to be purchasing a Macbook fairly soon and will need to transfer files from my Windows machine which I am ditching to a external HD.
Basically, all I want is for both OS's to be able to access files in one location. I am not wanting to make a bunch of partitions and things of that nature.
I want to format my external HDs (500gb, 120gb+40gb) as HFS+ and use MacDrive to access music and movies and whatnot from these drives (I am leaving the internal drive clean from media). I am also not going the FAT32 route due to the file size limitation (dvd rips, video files, etc).
So anyways - how stable is MacDrive now? I searched and read a bunch of posts stating it was corrupting HDs and crashing a lot in general. Is this still a problem? Some have said to back up often - what should I use to do this with if it is still a problem?
thx
Basically, all I want is for both OS's to be able to access files in one location. I am not wanting to make a bunch of partitions and things of that nature.
I want to format my external HDs (500gb, 120gb+40gb) as HFS+ and use MacDrive to access music and movies and whatnot from these drives (I am leaving the internal drive clean from media). I am also not going the FAT32 route due to the file size limitation (dvd rips, video files, etc).
So anyways - how stable is MacDrive now? I searched and read a bunch of posts stating it was corrupting HDs and crashing a lot in general. Is this still a problem? Some have said to back up often - what should I use to do this with if it is still a problem?
thx