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tonyzero

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not sure where i should ask this.

today i ordered a mac mini and i am preparing to move some files as you do, anyway i have a WD mybook studio edition II which is in NTFS for vista and i want to use the drive for time machine on the mac mini so is there a way of formatting the drive in vista to the mac HFS+ (Journaled) format ?

Tony
 
Maybe a silly question - Why not plug it into the Mini and format it from there?
 
hello Feek, i was trying to jump ahead and get all the files i want on the mybook before i got the mini as its not coming till monday
 
Options:

1) Use NTFS and then use FUSE or something on the Mac to read the NTFS drive.
2) Use FAT32 for a partition of it, assuming that 32GB is big enough. Actually, if you needed you could just format lots of 32GB partitions.
 
There are third party applications, macdrive for example though it's shareware. My advice would be to wait until you have your mac.

Connect the external NTFS formatted disk and copy the files from it to the mac then format the external disk as HFS and copy files back to it as required.

Obviously if you have a greater amount of files on your pc than your mac's internal disk then you can't do this.
 
OS X will :
read files from NTFS
read and write files to FAT32 (subject to 32GB partition limit and <4GB max file size)

3rd Party applications are available eg Paragon NTFS for Mac to add NTFS write.

To the best of my knowledge Time Machine requires HFS+ journalled format with local storage.
 
MagicBoy said:
OS X will :
read files from NTFS
read and write files to FAT32 (subject to 32GB partition limit and <4GB max file size)

3rd Party applications are available eg Paragon NTFS for Mac to add NTFS write.

To the best of my knowledge Time Machine requires HFS+ journalled format with local storage.
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ok that sounds good so i can put everything on the drive i want to copy and then once i have done that format the drive on the mac to HFS+
 
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