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Old 09-11-2011, 01:46 AM  
DamianJ
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Originally Posted by facialfreak View Post
Being an external drive, if you format it as NTFS, you can read its contents from both
Mac OR Windows computers ...
You can read HFS+ on Windows, you just need a little app

http://geekyninja.com/archives/how-t...es-on-windows/

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If you format it as Mac OS Extended, the drive is committed to being read by a Mac computer only ...
No it isn't, see above, and you get the advantages of a HFS_ disk.

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** Do not format it as FAT32 ... as Mac will not write any files larger than 4GB to it ..
Nor would a PC.

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