Mac OS X File System Concerns
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 Jul 24 2007, 08:38 AM
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I have a Western Digital 120GB 2.5Inch Notebook HDD. I opened Disk Utility in Mac OS X and then click on the HDD (not the volume), and then click erase and select volume format as MS-DOS File System. Took me 2 minutes to get it to work with Mac OS X, Vista and XP. No drivers needed.
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Jul 24 2007, 11:53 AM
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QUOTE(yetieater @ Jul 24 2007, 09:30 AM) TechnoDude94, your external HDD has been formatted in FAT32. Try dragging a file over 4GB in size onto it, and you'll find that it won't work. Yes, you are right in one part where you said it is formatted in FAT32 but I tried dragging 700MB files into it from Vista OS. It worked no problems. But what do you say is the limit for FAT32? |
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Jul 25 2007, 12:04 PM
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QUOTE(wei @ Jul 24 2007, 01:02 PM)  I wonder did you ever read the responce correctly.yetieater, clearly mentioned a 4GB limit, 700Mb is no where near 4GB. |
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