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FAT 32 vs NTFS on mac?
I have a load of work I want to dump onto a 500GB LaCie HDD to put onto a Mac from my PC…
I tried to format as FAT 32 on the PC (XP 32 Pro) but obviously there is the 32GB limit for PC formatting, so I tried FAT 32 for my mac, but then the PC won’t read it..
…Which is strange because I have a 160GB FAT32 drive which my Mac and PC *will* read!?!
Can Macs read NTFS discs? If that’s the case then I’m laughing!
does anybody have any advice on the best way to do this?
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3 / Mocha v1.0.1 / Elastic Reality
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It depends on the OSX version you are using, and whether or not it’s a full moon…
I actually have seen a fat 32 drive corrupted just by being plugged in a mac. I had to do a recovery on it. But in theory it should work, as long as it shows up the the desktop.
OSX can read NTSC, but probably won’t write to it because of incompatibility with the permissions set by windows. That may have changed with Vista and the latest OSX, since I haven’t really tried in a year or so. But the bottom line is you are probably better off just setting up a shared folder on a wired network, or bluetooth if you have a couple of weeks 🙂
Vince
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Hey,
Couldn’t help notice you had the same problem i did i few months back, except mine was in reverse. I tried getting large HDV files from my Mac, onto a portable hard drive to use and edit on PPro system on my PC.
Because of the problems with the FAT32 and its limited file size, i tried a trial version of MacDrive for Windows XP.
Essentially, you make your portable hard drive Mac compatible by partitioning it on your Mac, then using the MacDrive software, Windows is able to write and read from the drive as if it were a regular PC drive.
Like i said, i just downloaded the trial version, but search MacDrive on Google, and the manufacturers website will come up.
Hope this helps,
Insane Raven
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Thanks for the replies fellas.
I think the easiest way is going to be moving the files over a network. I’ve backed up the PC onto an NTFS drive aswell just in case. Will see if my mac reads it later and report back!
The other potential problem I’m facing, is getting my Adobe apps to read all the Blackmagic AVI’s. Anyobne here used Perian for such things?
*Production Studio Premium CS2 / *Combustion 3 / Mocha v1.0.1 / Elastic Reality
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Win XP Pro 32 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / DVS SDI Clipstation / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 110GB/80GB/600GB RAID-0
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