OT: Mac Dive and PC

RZ wrote on 4/3/2012, 3:51 PM

I have a mix of Windows ( XP ) and Mac Book Pro at home. I recently brought a G-Tech Drive bus powered mini (500GB) for all my digital juice stuff that I want to be available on both platforms.The G drive was formatted to Mac OS. I could not access the drive on my PC, then downloaded Mac Drive 8 and Viola. I am in the trial period but before I buy Mac Drive, I wanted to ask your opinion. Or any other suggestion that will make the drive available to both platforms.Thanks

RZ

Comments

rs170a wrote on 4/3/2012, 4:13 PM

I've been using it for a few years now and I love it!!

Mike

ChristoC wrote on 4/3/2012, 5:14 PM

Out of the main choices (MacDisk, MacDrive & MacOpener) I've found MacDrive the most friendly and reliable. Mac formatted drives will appear and work seamless for any Win application I ever encountered.

Laurence wrote on 4/3/2012, 6:17 PM

I have been using external USB drives formatted with exFAT. Discs formatted this way will work on both Macs and PCs and can have file sizes larger than 4GB. The only problem is they don't work on older versions of Windows if they have never had service pack updates. A small price to pay IMHO for a free way to format cross platform drives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/3/2012, 6:42 PM

I bought MacDrive solely because the Hyperdeck Shuttle 2's SSDs need to be Mac (HFS+) formatted. I haven't had any problems associated with MacDrive under Win 7 x64, but don't count on the disk throughput being as good under Windows, as if the disk was formatted as NTFS.