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 Fri 1 Jul 2005, 19:35
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I need an external HD so that i can work with both Windows and Macs. What will i need to format the hardrive to? i know that macs cant write to NTFS yet FAT32 has a limit to its partition size. I want a 250GB drive so whats the best solution?
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 Sat 2 Jul 2005, 03:17
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FAT32 will limit you but works (sloooooow, not partitionable from OSX), though limited on the mac, 30 GB partitions only. NTFS is read faster from Panther, I don't know if Tiger can write at last to NTFS…
If you don't need to use the drive for a session under Protools on a PC for exemple, use standard HFS+ and install MacDrive on the PC, no fuss. It just work 
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