dijon wrote:
> i want to move all my mp3's to an external firewire drive to share between
> my windows xp desktop and mac osx laptop (on different occasions - not the
> same time). if i format the drive for OSX win xp won't see it (i think) but
> if i format it for win xp, OSX will see it (again, i think). are there any
> foreseeable problems in doing this?
...format the drive for FAT and it'll be read/writeable by OSX,
Linux, XP. Note that you can't actually format a FAT drive
>32GB(?) with XP...you have to use 98, Linux, or OSX to do that.
I use this setup at home where the MP3 Collection may be dragged
to any number of machines. I had a question about a week ago
relating to a problem with formatting a backup drive
(ultimately, I believe the problem is that Linux and OSX will
gladly work with a non-partitioned, FAT32 drive...where XP will
not).
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