Using External HD on OSX and Windows

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  1. madtodaimax, Oct 19, 2007

    madtodaimax macrumors member

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    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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  2. swiftaw, Oct 19, 2007

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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.
     
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  3. madtodaimax, Oct 19, 2007

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    what would the file size limitations be? any review of the 3rd party software?
     
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  4. richard.mac, Oct 19, 2007

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    only a file limitation of 4GB with FAT32. macdrive is great i highly recommend it. read & writes to HFS+ in windows perfectly
     
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