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Can I PC format firewire drive then return to HFS+ ?
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erw
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Jul 26, 2002, 11:50 AM
 
Can I PC format my external firewire drive so I can transfer files to my friends PC. Will I then be able to reformat it back to HFS+ on my machine?

I would assume I can but I dont want to 'destrution test' my theory!
     
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Jul 26, 2002, 01:24 PM
 
sure, you can do that...Fat32 or NTFS for PC, either should mount on the Mac, but if you change the file system to HFS+, you'll have to reformat the harddrive (lose all data).
G4/450, T-bird 1.05GHz, iBook 500, iBook 233...4 different machines, 4 different OSes...(9, 2k, X.1, YDL2.2 respectively) PiA to maintain...
     
   
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