[Corintheus]

I'm going to be giving my step father my old Powermac G4, but there's one thing from stopping me. He used to use a PC, and he has a lot of documents and stuff on 3.5" disks. I was wondering if I bought an external 3.5" drive for the Mac... would it read those disks?

Would he be able to use the same disks on the Mac, and then take it to his work computer (Windows) without any trouble?

Or do they format the disks in some stupid manner that restricts you to the one OS?

Thanks.

[Corintheus]

*bump*

Surely someone knows the answer to this?

[Geoff Crane]

Yes you can use the same floppy disks in both Macs (OS X and OS 7-9) and Windows. Just make sure you format the disks for the PC, and the Mac will cope with that.

An external USB floppy disk drive will do it for you, just slowly.

Geoff
Canberra