Is there a way so that my external hard drive will work for both mac osx (10.4) and windows (2000)? Both computers see the drive but i cant see the mac osx partition on my windows and my osx can see the windows partition but cant make changes to the windows partiton.
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Using External HD on OSX and Windows
- Thread starter madtodaimax
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Ok, depends on the formatting of the drive:
FAT32 - read and write from both Windows and OSX but has file size limitations.
NTFS - read/write from Windows, read only from OSX
HFS+ - read/write from OSX, cannot read/write from Windows natively, but can using 3rd party app called MacDrive.
FAT32 - read and write from both Windows and OSX but has file size limitations.
NTFS - read/write from Windows, read only from OSX
HFS+ - read/write from OSX, cannot read/write from Windows natively, but can using 3rd party app called MacDrive.
only a file limitation of 4GB with FAT32. macdrive is great i highly recommend it. read & writes to HFS+ in windows perfectly