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Thread ID: 81407	2007-07-27 00:20:00	Fat32 vs. NTFS on flash drive.	wratterus (105)	Press F1

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573116	2007-07-28 12:49:00	Just quickly while on the subject, how does sharing a large (200GB+) external HDD between say OS X and XP work? It would need to be FAT32, right?	sal (67)
573117	2007-07-28 12:58:00	Eh your self, ... Thats completely correct but it would be useless if your windows cant read that drive because you use non standard Micro$oft formatting. There have been several reports on people trying to do exactly as you points out but you might get trouble utilizing the entire disk. Also, formatting a drive with FAT32 which is greater than 32GB will be a waste even if windows did not have any problems reading the drive. The Sector and cluster size will be so big that utilization of the disk makes it not worthy. Therefor, above 32GB, or lets say 64GB to satisfye you a bit (i think windows added support for that later in one of the w2k sp), you better go for NTFS since therer realy aint any alternatives when it comes to Micro$oft (since its hard to add ext support or other system support). Breg Vidar (Z)Right back at ya. The only limit is in formatting over 32GB, Windows can mount them just fine. There is no technical reason why it can't mount and use a 2TB partition, although Microsoft says it won't support mounting partitions over 127GB (the max size that Win98 can create) - I assume this is an attempt to get people to switch to NTFS. [ed: by "won't support" I mean "if you try it and things break, don't come running to us to complain because we won't help you". I don't mean that they have disabled the option.] As for real-world implementations, ask yourself what the 80GB iPods are formatted as.	Erayd (23)
573118	2007-07-28 13:01:00	Just quickly while on the subject, how does sharing a large (200GB+) external HDD between say OS X and XP work? It would need to be FAT32, right?Yes, unless you can be bothered installing the ntfs-3g drivers in OSX.	Erayd (23)
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