Intel motherboard, harddrive formats

[capone2]

When Mac goes Intel will the hard-drives have the same format has PC's ?

Fat ? volume ? whatever its called?

 

[kingcrowing]

I doubt it, they will probably still use the OS X extended format, but you can do that format on any type of HD, IE: ATA, SCSI, SATA, etc

 

[strider42]

When Mac goes Intel will the hard-drives have the same format has PC's ?

Fat ? volume ? whatever its called?

pretty much gauranteed no. The intel architecture has absolutley nothing to do with the file system being used. Many different OS's that run on x86 use different file systems. Apple would have to do a substantial rewrite to do that, and there would be no benefit. Hard drive format (file system) has to do with the OS and nothing else.

 

[yellow]

When Mac goes Intel will the hard-drives have the same format has PC's ?

Nope. It'll still be HFS+

Windows uses NTFS. The old style is FAT32. FAT16 is even older.. anything beyond that is worthless.

 

[rjphoto]

Mac made DOS Format

When I tell my Mac to format a hard drive into a DOS format, which format is it? Fat32? It just says "MS-DOS file system"...

 

[yellow]

In Disk Utility, MS-DOS file system = FAT32.

 

[capone2]

pretty much gauranteed no. The intel architecture has absolutley nothing to do with the file system being used. Many different OS's that run on x86 use different file systems. Apple would have to do a substantial rewrite to do that, and there would be no benefit. Hard drive format (file system) has to do with the OS and nothing else.

oh okay ? i didn't know that? So, the harddrive will be the same, cool.

 

[strider42]

oh okay ? i didn't know that? So, the harddrive will be the same, cool.

Mac's and Windows machines (or linux, unix, bsd, BeOS, etc) all use the exact same hard drives right now. They are just formatted different for the file system each OS uses. nothing changes on that front when the move to intel happens.