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fisherKing · Jul 26, 2006, 12:57 PM

think this goes here (as opposed to the 'peripherals' forum...)

i need to move some audio files and data to a brand new external usb harddrive from my powerbook (10.4.7) to be accessed solely by a pc user (windows 2000, i think).

how should i format the drive?
once they have the drive, it will be used exclusively on their pc.

thanx!

seanc · Jul 26, 2006, 01:28 PM

Well, Fat32 is your only option.
Mac OS X can't write to NTFS.

Dr. DDS · Jul 26, 2006, 03:40 PM

if your friend will access the drive just once, you can format in HFS and download free trial of MacDrive that alows Win read and write MacOS partitions. But if he will access all the time, just format in Fat32 via DiskUtility.
I partitioned a 250Gb disk with DiskUtility and one partition is Fat32 and the other is HFS to my mac (used SuperDuper to clone my ibook's HD). The other partition i use to share documents and backup WinXP.