Format it on a windows machine, and you'll be able to read/write on windows, mac, *nix, etc. no problems.
You should be able to get a 200-300gb drive for $100 or less, another 40 or so for an external enclosure for it. Consider a firewire enclosure and firewire card for your PC to use it with (another $30 or so). Still under the Book cost.
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Originally posted by Christien
Ok, thanks for the tip about the WD book drives - I was just looking at them this morning. I can get anywhere between 250 and 320GB for under $200, which is amazing.
If I format FAT32 on WinXP, then hook it up to the Mac, it'll read/write ok? Or should I format it on the Mac?
What about then pluggin it into WinXP after everything's been dumped from the Mac? Will Windows read it ok?
Thanks again!
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