Disk format compatible with OS X and Windows?

keogh

keogh

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Howdy all,

I could have posted this in several forums (Hard drives, WIndows, Apple Software) but decided on in here as I think you guys will know more :)

My Mac Pro has two hard drives in it now, the first has two partitions in it, one with OPS X Leopard and the other with Vista via boot camp (Very impressed with bootcamp, Vista runs more stable on my Mac Pro than it does on my actual PC).

My second hard drive has all my documents on it (i.e. music, pictures, files etc etc) and this is formatted in NTFS as it come straight from my Vista PC.

Well my boot camp windows partition sees the drive fine and can read and write to it, no surprises there, but OS X can happily see the drive, but its read only.

I want to share this drive between each, so that I can read AND write between both, is there a file format I can format the hdd in to allow this? Or am I lumbered with just having one OS getting full access to the drive? Would FAT32 work?

Sorry this is quite lenghty, I could have done this in one sentance, but I want to tell you the reason I want this incase it makes a diff.

Any help will be appreciated!

ta

Steve M
 
Cheers gents, I converted it to ugly old FAT32 (annoying you have to name the drive in Uppercase :) ).

Yeah, tranferring more than 4gb at a time throws an error in OS X... not tried in Windows.

I need Vista for a bit on the current project i'm doing due to an app that you cant get in OS X, and I don't want to run it unity via VMWare so I'm just gonna boot camp for a bit. Once thats over with, I'll convert to Journeled for OS X only and sorted.

All 8 cores show up in Vista also, pretty fast!
 
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