Re: help to access external HD from PC and Mac

You guys are right. After research, the 32GB is indeed an artificial
limit. Now, I'm still back to my problem. What is the optimal option
(each got its tradeoffs):

1. format it in fat32. access from PC and Mac thru USB/Firewire. Pro:
easy. Con: performance issues?
2. format it in HFS. install macdrive in PC. access thru USB/Fireware.
Pro: whatever benefits of formating with HFS (I'm not very familiar
since I'm a mac newbie and initial research indicates there are
inherent benefits as there are with NTFS over Fat32. Con: I have no
experience with HFS nor Macdrive to judge their reliability. and $50
on Macdrive.
3. no need to reformat or repartition. Share the drive using native
network tools in both PC and Mac. Pros: no reformating. Con: I don't
know how to do it in a home environment of 1 pc, 1 mac and 1 wireless
router.
4. Other options?

Which do you think is the most optimal?

On Jul 20, 9:45 pm, "Maxim S. Shatskih" <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Perhaps you're being misled by the fact that in its infinite wisdom
Microsoft decided that WinXP (and its predecessor Win2K) should not be
able to *create* FAT32 partitions larger than 32 GB,

Correct. A bad decision.

BTW - Vista/2008 can format 128GB to exFAT.

create the partitions (Wikipedia says you can even use XP's format.exe
command-line utility),

No. Creating a partition using Windows Setup booted off Windows CD can probably
work, but not command-line FORMAT which also has the artificial limitation.

after which any Windows system that supports
FAT32 (and presumably Mac) should access them just fine

Yes. There are plenty of laptops where Windows is installed on a 40-100GB FAT32
partition.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.storagecraft.com

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