[paul_edmo]

Hi,
I am looking at purchasing a hard drive and an enclosure to make an external hard drive. I have decided on the enclosure which will be an IcyBox IB-360UE-BL. Question is what hard drive to choose, an IDE or a SATA? Ive done this for a pc and chose an IDE but what works with mac and pc?

Second question. Once bought and made how do i format the hard drive to be mac and pc compatible? This will need to be done on the mac as that is all i have, the pc is a just-in-case thing. some help would be really usefull guys

Edmo

[Dr. DDS]

I posted a similar topic sometime ago. The answers i had were:
1) format to HFS+ once you are using most for mac (you can buy MacDrive for the PC, it allows windows read and write Mac drives)
2)if you are going to share, format in fat32 that OSX and Windows can read an write.
3) I will still try to partition and format the first part in HFS and the other in FAT32, because in fat32 you can't creat a file larger than 4gig and i will have the fat32 partition to make PC backups. I think that the first option is a lot easier.

sorry about my engilsh, i'm from brazil

[ghporter]

Dr. your English is fine, and your explanation is right on.

[Lava Lamp Freak]

Will MacDrive work with my external drive that is formatted as Journaled?

Also, how will it handle characters that Windows doesn't support. For example, I have some folders on the drive named as "Photos from 5/2006" and Windows won't allow the slash in a file name.

[Dr. DDS]

Yes, it supports your external drive. And i don't know about the name folders, i think it won't be a problem, but you know, windows...
Take a look at the website: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/