Hey Guys!
i just wanted to know whether i will be able to use an external drive with my pc and mac and also with my mac and the windows installed in it?
Thanks,
sathya
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I believe that Mac does not recogonize NTFS so it will have to be a DOS partition.
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The only input I will put here is to make sure you eject the drive before you unplug the USB cable.
Don't ask me how I know this is important. -
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Kind of confusing question.
But I'll say this. The only partition format that both OS can read and write to is Fat32, so if you wanna have both OS'es to access it with read and write, than thats your only option.
However, it is possible to setup 'MacDrive' on your windows so it can use some Mac OS format, but thats something I don't know anything about and your best bet would be one of the other guys here such as Cash, zadillo or wooky. I think at least one of those three have mentioned it. -
You cannot boot Windows from an external drive as far as I understood the Boot Camp talk - check the Apple discussions forum for confirmation, the Boot Camp section there should have others asking the same question. You can boot OS X from an external drive however, even a usb2 one nowadays I think (used to be only firewire). -
wait i think u misunderstood my question..
I wanted to know whether the external drive of mine which contain music and movies will be compatible with the macbook.. also will i be able to access these music and also write on the windows partition of macbook using bootcamp?
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OS X can read, but not write to NTFS, which is probably the file system that drive is right now. So, what I have done is format my external into HFS+(mac) and the purchased MacDrive6 for the XP machine to be able to read and write to that drive.
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Hope that cleared up any confusion?
External Hard drive question
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by sathyaterry, Sep 15, 2006.