get off my junk Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Hey, how is everyone doing? I am very interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro after the news about Narf and Blanka successfully booting on a Mac. Once I receive my MBP, I would want to make three partitions (1st for OS10, 2nd for XP, and 3rd for media and document files). I want to do this because I want to minimize duplication of data. I was wondering which format is better (HFS vs NTFS) for retrieving files by the other OS (if that makes ne sense). Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12165-questions-about-partitions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
issacleung Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Im no expert in file system performance, but here's the fact: Mac can read/write FAT32 native BUT read only NTFS. XP cannot read HFS/HFS+. Mind you, FAT32 got single file size limit. If you dont mind forking out $50 for addon software, go for MacDrive 6 for XP. That piece gets you read/write HFS/HFS+ on XP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12165-questions-about-partitions/#findComment-76518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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