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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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You can format from either box.
Whenever I set up a dual platform drive I always format on the PC. My rationale is the Mac is the most flexible in terms of media that it can use.
Or put another way I'd rather make sure it works on the PC before putting files on it because I'm comfortable that I won't have issues on the Mac side.
Kinda like making sure you can get the fill plug open on the tranny before you open the drain plug.
Simply hooking it up to a Mac won't do anything to a drive that makes it unusable under XP.
Make sure the engineer keeps a back up of the files for a couple of days.