On 23/1/03 11:11 pm, David Tingey wrote:
> Now I've come to set it up (using the PC W2000) I realise I may be stupid, as
> I'd completely forgotten that of course it has to be formatted - and can only
> be either PC formatted or Mac formatted (with various options either way!).
>
> Can anyone kindly clarify whether if I format it using W2000 that I can still
> use it to back up from the Mac (OSX 10.3) ?
> And will I have to format it in NTFS? (as it seems Fat32 only allows
> partitions of 32gb)
> And if I do this, will it conflict with the fact that the existing PC laptop
> partitions are Fat32?
> And can I use it to work on digital video files using either Mac or PC? (ie,
> are video files truly cross platform?)
Hi David
I know some of the answers to your questions but not all. However, the best
route, probably, is to initialize the HDD for the Mac as HFS+ using the
Apple disk utility rather than a third party utility. Then, buy MacOpener
for Windows 2000.
Files are cross platform but applications and volumes aren't. If you format
a drive as NTFS, you will complicate things and will have to buy drivers so
that your applications can see the different partitions. The above route
will solve all your problems.
Macs can usually see PC FAT volumes (because the drivers are inbuilt whereas
on the PC you have to pay extra for the privilege) but I'm not 100% sure if
an NTFS volume can be seen, my guess is it can be seen.
HTH.
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