Thanks shoo, the website looks pretty useful since the only problem I have had so far is that there's no FAT32 option that I could see, all I got was MAC OS extended, MAC OS, UNIX and Free Space.shooraijin wrote:Sync, there is no such restriction with that on the Mac.
mechana, just plug the USB drive into the Mac and start Disk Utility. Partition it into 10GB and make the rest another partition, then format the first partition as FAT32, and the second partition as HFS+. Note that this configuration is probably not bootable on either operating system. One problem is making sure that Windows doesn't try to be smart and offer your parents the chance to format the second partition, which would make you sad. You should test it on both computers afterwards for any gotchas.
If you format them both FAT, then neither computer will complain, but Mac resource forks and the like are better handled under HFS+.
(EDIT: I should mention some code words in Disk Utility, depending on your version of OS X. "Mac OS Extended" = HFS+. Use (Journaled) if it offers it to you. "MS-DOS" = FAT32. Also, look at this how-to if you're comfortable in the Terminal: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pcarbo/macnexstar.html )
shooraijin wrote:In Disk Utility, go under Partition and partition the drive, both into HFS+. Then go to Erase, and click the partition you want to be Windows, and erase it to MS-DOS Format. It seems to work fine for me under Jaguar.
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