Transferring large files from a Mac to PC.

[alexakasloth]

I'm getting more into using my laptop with Premiere Pro and After Effects on Vista Home Prem. for editing video files than using the universities mac's with Final Cut, however there is the problem of transferring files from a Mac (as I would use this to capture the footage) to my laptop.

I was thinking is there any way that an external hard drive can be configured so that I can transfer files from one to the other? As I understand it the reason that it's difficult is because of the format of the hard drive, are macs and PC's completely unreadable from one to the other or is it a file size limitation? As with FAT32/NTFS etc.
I don't mind using smaller file sizes by splitting up the video files to say 1GB. Does anybody have any ideas?

 

[droyden]

What about a network share on one of them and a cross over cable?
What version of mac os is it?

 

[alexakasloth]

I'm not sure on the version of the OS all I could say is it would be quite recent.
That would be a fast way of transferring, but would it involve much configuration? I ask this as some settings on the macs are disabled such as installing software, so changing network settings may not be an option (I would have to speak to the tech guys first).