[X4U] I want my backup drive to go both ways

[Conlon Brett]

Thanks John, I'll read up on it and report my findings when I get my  
solution working OK. I've also been told by a work colleague that  
there's some freeware software for the Mac that allows you to read/ 
write to an large volume NTFS formatted drive.

Ta muchly!

Brett

On 14/10/2009, at 10:35 AM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 10/13/09,  Conlon Brett <brettnlis at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a 500GB FW drive that I'd like to use for backups (both Mac  
>> & WinXP).
>>
>> I have a few questions tho...
>>
>> Can one Mac partition be used by Time Machine on multiple Macs or is
>> it supposed to be for one Mac only?
>>
>> I'd like a 50GB or so partition for my WinXP Bootcamp partition  
>> (which
>> is 32GB). The Win partition is currently FAT32 so I can read/write
>> from both Mac & PC side. Is it possible to create a FAT32 partition
>> for this purpose larger than 32GB in size? I ask because I've had a  
>> 45GB
>> drive that I couldn't use on the Win side until I reduced it under  
>> 32GB.
>>
>> What do other mixed Mac/Windows users do?
>
> See <http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=7534> and
> <http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=12187> for starters. I  
> don't do
> windoze, so you'll have to do further research on your own.
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