It’s not over until the FAT32 lady sings
October 4th, 2007One of the frustrating incompatibilities that still exist between operating systems is which file system you use to format your hard drives. I have a few external hard drives that I use for storing my media, keeping backups, etc. As far as I know FAT32 can be used by both Macs and PCs to read/write, but using it limits your file sizes to less than 4 GB. NTFS and MacOS Extended do the trick for their respective operating systems, but I learned the hard way that OS X couldn’t write to NTFS. I haven’t tested how Windows responds to the MacOS Extended file system, but I would imagine it’s the same if not worse.
Let’s standardize, people! Sadly, this probably won’t happen.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Sounds like you’re being punished for not being loyal to one company. How dare you use both Mac and PC!