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External Hard Drive with iBook and PC
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I was looking at getting this lacie hard drive to make back up of my iBook's hard drive as well as my parents windows laptops. Also, I would use this drive to edit movies using iMovie.
My question is will this drive be able to backup and be used by both windows and macs? I know exactly what to do on my iBook, just plug it in and then use the app backup to backup my machine. However, I am completely in the dark on how to do it with my parents PC's. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? What software will I need, or is it included with the Hard Drive?
If this is not the best hard drive to backup windows and macs and edit movies in iMovie with, I would appreciate a link to one that will suit my needs.
Thanks in advance,
Brandon
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You can do what you're suggesting. Just make sure you do one thing: Format it using the PC! Macs can read PC drives just fine, but PC's will NOT pick up a Mac-formatted drive.
So when you get it, plug it into your PC & right click it in "My Computer" and Format it (NTFS is fine). Once done, you can now drag & drop any files you want from the PC onto the HD via My Computer.
When you plug it into your iBook, it'll show up as an external HD on your Desktop, drag, drop, save as you like. 
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can you format it for windows from the mac?
- matt
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Originally posted by mattmarshall:
can you format it for windows from the mac?
Yes, you can format a drive as FAT32 in Disk Utility.
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are tehre any advantages to FAT32 over NTFS?
How advantages of using the mac formatting over the pc? if both can read the pc way and not the mac way -- why would you format it for macs?
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- matt
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NTFS is more steamlined with WinXP. Just format it using the PC and it's automatic.
You can't format this drive for OS X because then the Windows machine *will not read it*. You're only hope in using it on BOTH platforms is to format it for a PC (use the PC, it's easy to do).
Again, Macs read both Mac-formatted drives AND PC-formatted drives.
PCs ONLY read PC-formatted drives, so if you have a Mac-formatted drive, the PC WON'T see it.
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Do not use NTFS. The mac does not write to NTFS only to FAT32.
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Thanks for the help. I just bought it from the online Apple store because it has free shipping and I get the edu. discount, so I am getting this much cheaper then actually ordering from Lacie.
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Ouch...pricegrabber.com would've saved you at LEAST $50.
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