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hello!
im thinking of picking up an ibook soon and switching from my pc. i have one question though - i have 2 external usb 2.0 drives that are fat32 formatted. can iuse these with OSX? i really have no other way of getting/using all the data on the drives.
any advice appreciated 
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OS X should recognize them easily enough. And dragging and dropping your data from the Fat32 drives onto your OS X drive shouldn't be too much of a biggie either. But I would suggest that you format the externals for Mac once you move your data off.
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Originally posted by dcc777:
hello!
im thinking of picking up an ibook soon and switching from my pc. i have one question though - i have 2 external usb 2.0 drives that are fat32 formatted. can iuse these with OSX? i really have no other way of getting/using all the data on the drives.
any advice appreciated
Yeah actually they'll work, a friend of mine has an external HD which is formatted in fat32 and he's able to read/write files to that drive.
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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
But I would suggest that you format the externals for Mac once you move your data off.
I wouldn't, in case he needs to use the drives again on the pc for some reason. At the moment the drives will work on both so it's not worth formatting.
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Yup, it works on both, so why bother formatting it? That way he would be able to use the drive both on his PC and Mac when needed.
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hello!
thanks for the info
i won't be able to move the info to my ibook im afraid - theres just too much of it (3 externals: 120, 160 and 250gig)
ill just leave them the way they are, as long as i am sure they will be fine.
now - to figure out how long i should wait to buy (and if i should go with a new g4 or save some cash ad get a refurb g3....decisions, decisions)
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Originally posted by dcc777:
hello!
now - to figure out how long i should wait to buy (and if i should go with a new g4 or save some cash ad get a refurb g3....decisions, decisions)
If I'm not mistaken, the G4 iBooks have a USB 2.0 connection but ALL the G3s are USB 1.1 only .... should make the decision easy (unless you want the data from your externals the crawl over a USB 1.1 connection.
On the brighter side, it shouldn't be an extremely long time until newer iBooks come out. Then you can pick up a refurb G4, still save some dough, and have the USB 2.0 that you need.
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ah yes, thanks for the info. must have usb2.0
im planning on waiting till the end of the month i think - hopefully something will happen by then
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