If I do it "off the shelf." That is, I make an image with my scanning back tethered to a Mac, burn a cd with it, and bring it to a PC, I see the image without the slightest difficulty.
CDs are no problem cross platform. You have to go to exceptional pains to burn one on a Mac that can't be read by Windows. Most software defaults to burning in a hybrid format that most any computer can recognize. The subject of this thread started with portable hard drives. That's where cross platform compatibility becomes more of an issue. I don't try to move drives across platforms often but the only way I've made it work is to format on a a Mac in a DOS format. I can then read it on both machines. I recently freshly formated a Firewire drive in XP assuming the Mac would see it. It didn't. I don't recall what options I used when formatting in Windows.
Bob Smith
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