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 Wed 24 Nov 2004, 06:30
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Hi,
Just bought a powerbook and I have all my PC files on an external western digital hard drive. I want my computer optimised mainly for audio so I was wondering whether I should reformat the external drive to the native mac format or keep the FAT32 (gaining PC compatibility I suppose). cheers Ion |
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Wed 24 Nov 2004, 16:46
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you could keep it pc format, try and see how many tracks you can play back or record to it at one time with the pc format, if it gives a useable amount then why bother re-formatting.
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 Wed 24 Nov 2004, 21:44
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- do you really need the compatibility?
- FAT32 won't be bootable (you'll have to reformat it in HFS(+) if you want to install a MAC OS system) else it should work… 
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