> Fra: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dato: 2006/05/18 Thu AM 02:56:07 CEST > Til: [email protected] > Emne: Re: OT: External HD's and two OS's > > Carlos Royo wrote: > > > Mark Roberts wrote: > > > >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> > >>> On May 16, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>> > >>>> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> You can get what you want, but you need to set the drive up for it. > >>>>> > >>>>> Windows XP limits the size of a FAT32 drive to 32Gbytes when > >>>>> formatting, they want you to use NTFS. > >>>> > >>>> I have a 250 gig drive formatted FAT32 in Windows. > >>> > >>> Might be a version thing. Last time I went to do this, Win XPP > >>> *would not* allow me to create a volume greater than 32Mbytes with > >>> its supplied utilities. > >> > >> > > > > Windows XP won't let you format a partition in the FAT32 system if it > > is bigger than 32 GB. But you can do it (I mean, formatting FAT32 > > bigger partitions) using third party utilities, such as Partition > > Magic and others, and the resulting partition will be read and written > > by XP or Windows 2000 and other operating system without any problems. > > > > Carlos > > OS X will also do it. Format in MS-DOS mode and it will do a FAT32 > partition.
I did that with my external HD, and it worked fine except for some problems with characters in some file names that wasn't compatible with the MS system. Now that I only use the disc for backup I've formated it with OSX file system. For transporting files between PC and Mac I'm considering something like this: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10655 DagT
