2x OS, 1x USB Hard Drive

**Floris** · Jul 21, 2006, 12:26am

At the end of the summer my brother is probably giving me his older 300gb hard drive, and that is great!

However, I have 80gb hd in the powerbook which is mac os x 10.4.7 right now and I have nearly 1tb of internal hd space in the pc on windows xp pro 32bit.

The mac stores it files in their own file system type and windows does it on ntfs.

I could just format the drive in 2 partitions and use one partition for each OS?

What would be great is moving files like .avi or .zips or .txt from the pc on the external drive and then read and use it on the mac? And visa versa of course.

I have no experience with this expcet for using my ipod

Or just format it on the pc as fat32 and let it use by both systems without problems?

Anybody have any experience with this?

**64-Bit Man** · Jul 21, 2006, 01:55pm

No experience in this field, nowadays buying an apple computer you'll be able to boot camp Windows and Mac.

**Christopher** · Jul 21, 2006, 04:27pm

Do the Linux NTSF drivers work on a Mac? You could try just mount'ing the partition and see how it works out.

**triumph** · Jul 27, 2006, 01:51am

Yeah they should work on the mac because it is just a unix flavor.. I would suspect it can read the files.. so just have a shared partition.

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Jul 21, 2006, 12:26am	#1 (permalink) 2x OS, 1x USB Hard Drive
Floris Member Posts: 58 Karma:	At the end of the summer my brother is probably giving me his older 300gb hard drive, and that is great! However, I have 80gb hd in the powerbook which is mac os x 10.4.7 right now and I have nearly 1tb of internal hd space in the pc on windows xp pro 32bit. The mac stores it files in their own file system type and windows does it on ntfs. I could just format the drive in 2 partitions and use one partition for each OS? What would be great is moving files like .avi or .zips or .txt from the pc on the external drive and then read and use it on the mac? And visa versa of course. I have no experience with this expcet for using my ipod Or just format it on the pc as fat32 and let it use by both systems without problems? Anybody have any experience with this?

Jul 21, 2006, 01:55pm	#2 (permalink) Re: 2x OS, 1x USB Hard Drive
64-Bit Man Advanced Member Posts: 115 Karma:	No experience in this field, nowadays buying an apple computer you'll be able to boot camp Windows and Mac.

Jul 27, 2006, 01:51am	#4 (permalink) Re: 2x OS, 1x USB Hard Drive
triumph Member Posts: 54 Karma:	Yeah they should work on the mac because it is just a unix flavor.. I would suspect it can read the files.. so just have a shared partition.