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External drive for both Win and Mac. HFS+ drivers??
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dice
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Jan 10, 2006, 05:45 AM
 
Hi

My iMac is officially dead unless I get my hands on a new power/analog board...

So for the time being I will be using a Windows laptop. I just purchased a big harddisk (320GB) and external case (firewire and USB2)..

I have three questions.

1) What would be the best partitioning scheme? ideally I want it readable and writeable on both PCs and Macs. Which means FAT32... file size limit of 4GB and problems with mac permissions...

So I think I will use both FAT32 and HFS+ but I have heard problems of getting them both on the disk... I cant decide what size to make each partition. The HFS+ partition is for data specific to macs.


2) Can you point me to some HFS+ drivers for windows? preferably free... I'll install these on my personal windows system so I can access the whole disk. Other windows systems will then only have access to the FAT32 partition.

3) Has there been any headway in getting write support for NTFS? I know OSX/Linux can *read* from NTFS. The problem being Microsoft refusing to open it up...


thanks!
sheesh, that took 8 hours for me to be asked to change my sig...
     
chefpastry
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Jan 10, 2006, 08:53 PM
 
While it's not free, I've heard that MacDrive works pretty well.
     
   
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