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Zillax0rz

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May 3, 2007
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I have three drives in my Mac. The 1 250 it came with and two 500GBs. I installed XP on the 250. Can I store Windows-related files on the other two hard drives or do they need to be formatted for Windows-only or anything weird like that?
 
So I'm assuming HFS+ is the Mac standard. But doesn't FAT32 limit you to 32GB? I have two 500GB internal drives I want to use. Also, I formatted XP as NTFS.

Windows artificially limits FAT32 formatting to 32 Gb per volume as a way to force people to use NTFS. The Mac (and third party formatting tools) can format a FAT32 drive to any size.

Read the linked article through to the end.

(disclaimer - I have NOT done this myself)
 
The max volume size under FAT32 is usually 8TB, max file size is 4GB.

LMO
 
Windows artificially limits FAT32 formatting to 32 Gb per volume as a way to force people to use NTFS. The Mac (and third party formatting tools) can format a FAT32 drive to any size.

Read the linked article through to the end.

(disclaimer - I have NOT done this myself)

That article is pretty daunting and a bit over my head. This is the only way? What is my other option, to make the drive Windows-only?
 
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