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It’s not over until the FAT32 lady sings

One 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.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 9:55 pm and is filed under Hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “It’s not over until the FAT32 lady sings”

  1. Jennifer C. Young Says:
    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!

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