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| Cn anyone recommend an external harddrive that will work for my PC desktop and mac laptop? Wanted to use the same drive so I only have to take one to work. Needs to be about 500gb, usb connection and plug and play.
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Hi Jay, you could try the lacie drive from microdirect WIndows and Mac compatible etc etc at a touch under £200.
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=10332&source=Kelkoo
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| Thanks for the link - I like the lego block one! I was talking to a friend and he said that I wont be able to use the same external drive for the mac and the pc as they are formatted differently. I know this is a silly question but I am right in thinking I can connect the harddrive to the pc, save a file and then connect to the mac and save a different file. I know you cant open certain files across the machines but I am just using it for storage.
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Hi Jay, Different File system Yes but partition the Drive one partition NTFS or Fat32 for your windows files and HFS or HFS+ for the Mac, although I believe OSX, will read write to fat 12 ,16 and 32 partition so you may be able to use the whole disc as fat32. As for the plug in one save etc yes that is how these devices are designed to be used. Got to say the Lego Duplo are rather interesting in a childish way.
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OS X 10.4 can read/write to FAT32 file systems and read (supposedly) from NTFS systems. If you use Disk Utility on a Mac you get the option of formatting in 'MS-DOS' which is effectively FAT32.
I have a Lacie external HDD which I couldn't format for FAT32 from my Mac - Disk Utility just didn't give me the option but happily does for pendrives, iPods, etc. I think the problem may be that I have the drive connected via Firewire 800 and this may not be Windows file system 'compatible'. Not tried with USB2 so not sure if this is the problem. May be easier to format the drive from a Windows PC using FAT32.
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