RE: format external hard drive for mac and windows?
- From: "bruce johnson" <brucejohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:56:03 -0700
"Janice F. Jorgensen" wrote:
> I have a new external hard drive. I want to be able to use it with my ibook
> with os x 10.2.8 and my win2k and winxp machine.
> How do I format part for a backup of my ibook with carbon copy and the other
> part to backup on my win2k machine?
>
Probably the best is to partion the drive into two parts. Disk utility on OS
X will let you set up the partitions.
Format the Mac partition using HFS+, the PC Partition using FAT32. This way
a CCC backup of your mac is usable, if it's a Firewire drive, iot's bootable.
If you want, then you can connect the drive to a windows system and reformat
it as NTFS if you want; but thereafter the mac will see it as unreadable and
ask if you want to reformat it.
OS X 10.4 includes support for NTFS filesystems.
If you need to access the HFS partition from Windows MacDrive from Media
Four s a very useful utility; it enables Windows systems to seamlessly read
all Mac disk formats.
.
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