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Free HFS enabler for iPod?
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One thing i've always wished apple would do was use a universal format for the iPod (as they did with the shuffle). right now my 5G iPod is formatted as a mac iPod (HFS). on past versions of the iPod i formatted it for PC so i could use it as external storage for both windows and mac machines. id much rather just have an HFS enabler for windows so i dont have to do all my updates on a windows machine. does anyone know of a free one?
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24" iMac 2.13ghz C2D | 15" MBP 2ghz CD | "Soundwave" 60GB 5G iPod
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Why not reformat it as FAT32? Everything (including a toaster [running NetBSD]) can ready FAT32.
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i can. its what ive done on my two previous iPods. i would prefer to keep it HFS though because its a bit faster on the mac than FAT32. also in using FAT32 it locks me into all future software updates being applied via a windows machine. so i was just asking if anyone knew of an HFS enabler for windows that was free.
Originally Posted by mduell
Why not reformat it as FAT32? Everything (including a toaster [running NetBSD]) can ready FAT32.
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edit dup. whats up with the macnn forums lately with this double post junk?
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Originally Posted by dwishbone
edit dup. whats up with the macnn forums lately with this double post junk?
Check out the feedback forum. Everybody is having trouble it seems with this 3.5 upgrade.
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Originally Posted by dwishbone
One thing i've always wished apple would do was use a universal format for the iPod (as they did with the shuffle). right now my 5G iPod is formatted as a mac iPod (HFS). on past versions of the iPod i formatted it for PC so i could use it as external storage for both windows and mac machines. id much rather just have an HFS enabler for windows so i dont have to do all my updates on a windows machine. does anyone know of a free one?
I don't know a free one, but MacDrive from Mediafour works very well. I've got version 5 (fairly old now) and it still works very well on XP.
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HFVExplorer is free but I've never tried it with an iPod.
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