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Best format for External Hard Drive?
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johnpop
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Feb 3, 2005, 12:56 AM
 
I am going to pickup a 250 gb external hdd. I have a powerbook as well as 3 Windows XP machines

What will be the best way to format it? Can OS X write/read NTFS? no?

If it can't I was thinking Fat32 would be the next best choice, but it cant support files larger than 4gb. Maybe 2 partitions, HFS+ and FAT32.

What are your experiences or thoughts?
     
   
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