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Firewire HD -- how can I use it on both Mac and PCs?
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I'm getting a firewire HD, and I'm trying to find out if I can format it in such a way that I can swap it between PCs and Macs easily -- what formatting should I use? Do I need any 3rd party software? The two machines I'm using are running Windows XP and a MacOS X 10.2.4. I know I can plug it in and network it -- I want a way of actually directly plugging it into both machines. Thanks!
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Just format it for use with Windows (NTFS) and then it will be fine.
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I don't think anything can use NTFS except Windows NT-based systems.
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Yeah, the Mac'll read the PC formatted drive. The PC can't read jack if it's formatted as a HFS+. 
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Yeah, the Mac'll read the PC formatted drive. The PC can't read jack if it's formatted as a HFS+.
unless you install MacDriveon the pc
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Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
FAT32
I don't think anything can use NTFS except Windows NT-based systems.
Whoops, yeah. have been messing around with NTFS all day, so got confused
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