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working with both Mac and PC with an external hard drive
Hi,
I have bought a D2 300GB Lacie external hard drive. My computer at home is a PC so I have formatted the hard drive to NTFS to be compatible with my PC. However, I have a mac in school and all my assignments are saved there and I would like to be able to transfer them to my external hard drive. Does anyone know of a way I can format the hard drive to work both with Mac and with PC? Thanks, Noa |
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Previously rabinoa wrote:
Hi, I have bought a D2 300GB Lacie external hard drive. My computer at home is a PC so I have formatted the hard drive to NTFS to be compatible with my PC. However, I have a mac in school and all my assignments are saved there and I would like to be able to transfer them to my external hard drive. Does anyone know of a way I can format the hard drive to work both with Mac and with PC? Easy: Use FAT32 as filesystem. You Will have to partition it for that, since FAT32 has a size limit that, I think, is lower than 300GB. Arno |
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On 22 Sep 2005 14:40:31 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote:
Easy: Use FAT32 as filesystem. You Will have to partition it for that, since FAT32 has a size limit that, I think, is lower than 300GB. 128GB max with FAT32. Sorry but that means losing more than half of the hard drive. Unless you need need to transfer really large files, thumbdrive are cheaper and available up to 1GB+ sizes. All you need is an USB port on both computers, USB capable OS (Mac OS 8.6 or later, Windows 98se or later) -- When you hear the toilet flush, and hear the words "uh oh", it's already too late. - by anonymous Mother in Austin, TX To reply, replace digi.mon with phreaker.net |
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Previously Impmon wrote:
On 22 Sep 2005 14:40:31 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Easy: Use FAT32 as filesystem. You Will have to partition it for that, since FAT32 has a size limit that, I think, is lower than 300GB. 128GB max with FAT32. Sorry but that means losing more than half of the hard drive. It does not. It just means that you have to put 3 partitions on it to use its full size. Or you can have one 128MB Mac+Win partition and one larger win-only NTFS partition. Unless you need need to transfer really large files, thumbdrive are cheaper and available up to 1GB+ sizes. All you need is an USB port on both computers, USB capable OS (Mac OS 8.6 or later, Windows 98se or later) Still need to put FAT32 on it (usually the vendor has already done this for you), but I agree. Thumbdrives are _very_ handy and difficult to destroy. Arno |
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"Impmon" wrote in message
On 22 Sep 2005 14:40:31 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Easy: Use FAT32 as filesystem. You Will have to partition it for that, since FAT32 has a size limit that, I think, is lower than 300GB. 128GB max with FAT32. Nonsense. That depends on the Windows version. Sorry but that means losing more than half of the hard drive. Neither. Just use more than one partition, if at all necessary. Unless you need need to transfer really large files, thumbdrive are cheaper and available up to 1GB+ sizes. All you need is an USB port on both computers, USB capable OS (Mac OS 8.6 or later, Windows 98se or later) |
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"Impmon" wrote in message ...
On 22 Sep 2005 14:40:31 GMT, Arno Wagner wrote: Easy: Use FAT32 as filesystem. You Will have to partition it for that, since FAT32 has a size limit that, I think, is lower than 300GB. 128GB max with FAT32. Sorry but that means losing more than half of the hard drive. Only on Win 98/ME. Larger volumes are OK on Win 2K/XP, and OsX should too. |
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