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Boot Camp and Secondary Hard Drives
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zillax0rz
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Jul 1, 2007, 04:08 PM
 
I have a Mac Pro with 3 HDs. OSX and XP are installed on the primary and I had previously setup the other 2 hard drives for the Mac. Can I use those other 2 drives for Windows-related files or is some formatting required? Are they not compatibility? Can both OSes share the drives?
     
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Jul 1, 2007, 08:08 PM
 
If they are formatted FAT or NTFS they are readable by Windows. NTFS will only be readable by Mac, not writable, however.

I have an external drive formatted FAT and it's fine in Windows XP and Mac.
     
   
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