External Hard Drive Not Visible in Boot Camp Vista

[needthephone]

I have a new imac (love it!) and have installed vista on a 32Gb partition using Boot Camp. I was planning on saving files I create in vista on the external Hard drive. But I can't see it when I'm in Vista so can not save files to it.

It is a terrabyte disk and is used by Time machine.

Is there anyway I can save to it or should I add another external HD just for windows,

I can see it when I go to system hard ware (it says seagate HD etc but there is no info on files sizes etc-there is a button which says populate but I dare not press it as I'm scared it will screw up my back ups)

Another irritation is that when I reboot back to mac it throws out the internet and I have to reset the modem and router so it works again.

 

[steveza]

Your external drive needs to be in either FAT32 or NTFS format for Windows to recognise it natively. Otherwise you need to get MacDrive to use an OS X formatted drive.

 

[needthephone]

Thanks -Yes I'm stupid!

If I got another External HD and plugged it in while in VISTA would I be able to see it?

I just love my new IMAC so much. VISTA seems OK too but it keeps going on about security and how I am under protected so I want to spend as little time in the VISTA world as I can.

 

[needthephone]

Thanks -Yes I'm stupid!

If I got another External HD and plugged it in while in VISTA would I be able to see it?

I just love my new IMAC so much. VISTA seems OK too but it keeps going on about security and how I am under protected so I want to spend as little time in the VISTA world as I can.