[G4] External HAD Formatting Question

[Tony Johansen]

On 25/10/2005 10:26 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001 at panix.com> wrote:

> At 21:11 -0700 on 10/24/2005, Harry Freeman wrote about Re: [G4]
> External HAD Formatting Question:
> 
>> You might want to consider using their latest which I think is NTFS.
> 
> YOU DO NOT want to format as NTFS unless you want to only be able to
> READ the drive on the Mac. The only format that will allow you to
> read and write the drive on both the Mac and a Windows machine is
> FAT32 (which is what you get if you select MS-DOS as the format
> option under MacOS X. One other GOTCHA with NTFS is that it is not
> even readable under MacOS X if you select the Compressed Option (ie;
> The drive must be left as uncompressed if you want to read the
> contents under MacOS X).


Ah, explains why LaCie uses FAT32 on their externals (despite newer
options), to keep them Mac compatible. I had wondered about that.

Tony
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