[HM] hard drives - are windows and mac interchangeable?

[Fabian Fang]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:15:26 -0800 (PST), E. Matro <artemisrat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> But if the cabling
> and connections are the same, is it possible to
> reformat and use hard drives advertised for windows
> users? 

Yes

>either internal or external?

Both

> also, does anyone have information on how to put an
> internal hard drive into a case to use as an external?

Almost all cases come with power and IDE cables ready to be plugged
into the back of the drive.  You will then tie down the drive with 2
or 4 screws.  It is very simple and takes only a few minutes.