No For pure storage then it will be fine, if you format it in FAT32 format it will work in Windows and Mac concurrently. Though you need to be running Windows XP or Windows 98 providing that the external drive comes with Windows 98 drivers.
It should work via USB1 but at you said it will be slow! Thanks, David Moyle ---------- Bertram, Western Australia E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Notice: The contents of this email are confid.. Were you meant to recieve this? If not, delete it. Please? -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Law Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2007 2:28 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Partition in external firewire disk to run Windows Thanks David, I was not trying to boot up from the external drive, just access stored files - maps for digital mapping in particular, maybe games or other programmes I thought I could instal in a DOS partition. Does your feedback still stand? Ta Tim on 18/2/07 9:40 AM, David Moyle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey > > It can't be done, you can't run Windows off an external disk of any sort, > firewire or USB2. Though on really new computers you can boot off USB2 > memory sticks which is sweet. > > Thanks, David Moyle -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
