On Aug 5, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:
I'm not sure about a MickyMouseSoft system, I think that they
format a drive different than a Mac. I know that their format used
to result in a format that had a FAT32 (file allocation table)
which kept track of which sectors and all of the pointers to those
sectors. Among other items.
Yes they do. The main PC formats in use are FAT, FAT32, and NTFS.
FAT is what smaller disks (such as zip disks and the myriad of
Compact flash, USB stick, SD, etc media) are formatted as. Fat32 is
the native file system for Win98, and some larger Compact Flash and
SD media, as they allow larger volumes.
NTFS is a different file system, designed as the native one for
Windows NT (hence the name) and XP.
Macs and PC's can interchangeably use FAT and FAT32 devices.
PC's can read the Mac disk formats HFS and HFS+ using third party
software, such as MacDrive.
Finally, OS X 10.4 (and 10.4 only) can mount NTFS drives, although in
read-only mode. AFAIK, no other software exists to allow Macs to read
NTFS disks. If someone does know, I'd dearly love to find out.
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