[kasdoffe]

Can I do it? And how?

I'm a total Apple noob. I took the plunge to an iMAC from a PC purely because I could still feed my PC addiction with boot camp. I find myself in XP about 75% of the time still, doing .NET development, but I'd like a common partition, accessble to both OS X and XP, to store any music or movies so I can listen to my music despite whatever OS i'm using at the moment.

Care to help me? Thanks!

[Chuckit]

OS X and Windows can both read FAT32, so that's your best bet if you want to share between them.

[Eug]

Yeah, but if you only have one drive, you can't easily create a 3rd partition.

Do you have a Mac Pro? If so, then just add another internal drive. Or else, add an external drive.

FAT32 will work but the one problem is that certain file names compatible with OS X make FAT32 cry. If you try to transfer a file directory over from HFS+ to FAT32 and there is one of these files in there, the transfer will just terminate, and won't tell you why. However, if you don't use funky file names, then it won't matter.

MacDrive is more flexible though, and allows you to read any HFS+ drive on Windows, including the OS X boot partition. Also, with MacDrive, I guess there is no need to create a 3rd partition.