I have a USB2 drive (made from an old 20Gb labtop drive and a USB2
case) I would like to format this so I can see it on both Mac and PC.
I thought this could be done, and Mac can see PC CDs, and floppies but
I think that is because they are formatted as FAT16, but as the drive
is 20Gb I can;t format it FAT16, and FAT32 doesn't seem to work for
OS9 or OSX.
Can I get it to work for both platforms without third party software?
Thx
"Glo8al" <glo8alNO@SPAMhotmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:08:09 +1000, Glo8al wrote:
I have a USB2 drive (made from an old 20Gb labtop drive and a USB2
case) I would like to format this so I can see it on both Mac and PC.
I thought this could be done, and Mac can see PC CDs, and floppies but
I think that is because they are formatted as FAT16, but as the drive
is 20Gb I can;t format it FAT16, and FAT32 doesn't seem to work for
OS9 or OSX.
Can I get it to work for both platforms without third party software?
Thx
FYI, you can use FAT32 and it will be seen by both platforms, and in >OSX10.3 it will have NTFS support.
Except that with Win2k, you have a 32Gb limit for FAT32....I've a friend
who wants to configure a 120Gb WD drive to have a 32Gb FAT partition and
a 78Gb OS X extended partition, but Win2k won't recognize it if you
partition is on the Mac, and Win2k can't make Mac disks. :-(
Any ideas? I searched WD's website, but it didn't say anything helpful.
In article <beefj3110ik@enews2.newsguy.com>,
Stephen M. Adams <adamst@direcway.com> wrote:
"Glo8al" <glo8alNO@SPAMhotmail.com> writes:Can you partition it on the Win2k system and then change the type of the >partition to be used on the Mac with pdisk?
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:08:09 +1000, Glo8al wrote:
I have a USB2 drive (made from an old 20Gb labtop drive and a USB2
case) I would like to format this so I can see it on both Mac and PC.
I thought this could be done, and Mac can see PC CDs, and floppies but
I think that is because they are formatted as FAT16, but as the drive
is 20Gb I can;t format it FAT16, and FAT32 doesn't seem to work for
OS9 or OSX.
Can I get it to work for both platforms without third party software?
Thx
FYI, you can use FAT32 and it will be seen by both platforms, and in
OSX10.3 it will have NTFS support.
Except that with Win2k, you have a 32Gb limit for FAT32....I've a friend
who wants to configure a 120Gb WD drive to have a 32Gb FAT partition and
a 78Gb OS X extended partition, but Win2k won't recognize it if you
partition is on the Mac, and Win2k can't make Mac disks. :-(
Any ideas? I searched WD's website, but it didn't say anything helpful.
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