wd mybook

tonyzero · 27 Mar 2009 at 18:48

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

tonyzero · 27 Mar 2009 at 19:10

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

tonyzero · 28 Mar 2009 at 16:07

so a mac has no problem taking files that are on an NTFS drive ?

tonyzero · 28 Mar 2009 at 16:28

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.

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+