On Jan 26, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Ann Richmond wrote:
Do I need to reformat the maxtor? Their site was very confusing aboutthat with cautions about win 98 and os9 which do not apply in this instance.Any suggestions are as always very much appreciated.
Right off hand I'd guess the drive is formatted as NTFS, which is proprietary to Microsoft. Mac OS X is somewhat limited in its handling of NTFS -- read only and even that somewhat flakey. You should probably try formatting it.
The way I do it is to put a small FAT32 partition on the drive and fill the rest with an HFS+ partition. That way you can mount the FAT32 partition on Windows and both on the Mac. Remember that FAT32 has both a partition size maximum of 32 GB (with usual sector sizes) and a maximum file size of 4 GB.
On Windows, large drives are usually formatted NTFS because it supports partition sizes up to something like 2 TB. HFS+ can handle something like 200 TB.
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