Hi Adrian, I guess that if you are to use your external drive solely for your Mac OS, then format it for that OS. Because I do very occasionally use my external drives on Windows machine, I create a small partition which I format for Windows, and the rest is formatted for the Mac OS. This allows me to place some data for Windows only machines, for whenever I visit my relatives/friends with Windows PCs.
I have partitioned & formatted many external drives NTFS (Win) & Mac OS Extended as mentioned above using the trusty Disk Utility without any problem. Hope this somehow makes sense. Regards, Philippe C ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: External Drives Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:19:05 +0900 >I am looking at the 1 Tb drive (Western Digital) on offer at >OfficeWorks. They come formatted for windows with an option to >convert to Mac using provided software, is it advisable or necessary > >for any reason to this? > > >Adrian > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
