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Forum: Storage & Hardrives July 25th 08, 04:09 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
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Posted By Gizzo
help to access external HD from PC and Mac

Ok I tried the network option and let me share my experience for the
benefit of others who may be in the same situation.

I reformatted the external HD to HFS (very easy in mac) and created
folders...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives July 21st 08, 03:55 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 1,744
Posted By Gizzo
help to access external HD from PC and Mac

Can I partition the drive so that those that I primarily use in the
mac, ie videos, music, photos are formatted in HFS and those I
primarily use in the PC, ie docs, pst files are formatted in NTFS....
Forum: Storage & Hardrives July 20th 08, 05:43 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 1,744
Posted By Gizzo
help to access external HD from PC and Mac

You guys are right. After research, the 32GB is indeed an artificial
limit. Now, I'm still back to my problem. What is the optimal option
(each got its tradeoffs):

1. format it in fat32. access from...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives July 19th 08, 11:41 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 1,744
Posted By Gizzo
help to access external HD from PC and Mac

Sorry but what do you mean by your text diagram below?


On Jul 20, 3:53*am, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
wrote:
* * Backup Mac as Mac - SMB - PC - NTFS external disk.

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Forum: Storage & Hardrives July 19th 08, 11:16 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 1,744
Posted By Gizzo
help to access external HD from PC and Mac

I'm regularly a PC user but have just purchased a second computer
which is a MAC. I backup my data to a 500GB External HD with 5 NTFS
partitions of 100GB each. Each partition contains a different...
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