Question about new HD

fabio you must first format the drive to mac os uitgebreid (journaled) zie hulp programmas / schijfhuplprogramma !

greets

this harddisk is windows formated and ready when you buy it ! but for osx its its needed to format i think its an usb 2 connection !

I have the same kinda problem I think ... I want to make a back up off my hole macHD but when I copy large folders to my 250 G hard drive it sais after a while yo can't copy some files cause of the format or name.. very anoiing cause then you don't really know whats copied and whats not..

so falcon.. I have to do the same like fabio ? schijfprogramma ? But there allready a lot of files on the protable HD .. don't tell me I need to format the drive before doing stuff like that..

grtz

when you wanna use to transfer data between to 2 systems / windows and mac osx you my leave it in the dos standart !

Yeah i just quitted copying and it didn't had any problem opening my files those who where copied I guess i'm gonna leave it like that coz' i also want to connect to pc's for transferring files and data in the future. And also becoz' i'm thinking to sell my mac in a while and buying back a pc to produce. Maybe you where copying to many seperate folders and seperate operations to copy your files I didn't had any problem (so far) So as i said i think i'm gonna leave it this way so it's mac and pc accessable. Thanks for advice

ok fabio no problem

Bare in mind when transferring/backing up for exemple large iso files

NTFS --> allows storing files of wich filesize > 4GB FAT32 --> only allows storing files of wich filesize < 4GB

(DVD = 4,7 GB, so you can't even back up an image file of a standard DVD)

Don't know if that is OS related or formatting related..

So..... When buying a new external HD --> Ask yourself if you need to backup files > 4 GB --> If so --> Format the disk from the beginning in NTFS...

Grtz

Originally posted by : Funky

Bare in mind when transferring/backing up for exemple large iso files

NTFS --> allows storing files of wich filesize > 4GB FAT32 --> only allows storing files of wich filesize < 4GB

(DVD = 4,7 GB, so you can't even back up an image file of a standard DVD)

Don't know if that is OS related or formatting related..

So..... When buying a new external HD --> Ask yourself if you need to backup files > 4 GB --> If so --> Format the disk from the beginning in NTFS...

Grtz

funky ... MacOsX can't read ntfs :-)

macos uses an hfs+ filesystem :)

the problems you get when copying are due to problems in the filenames or filesize or other limitations of fat32 that aren't present in macos filesystem .

so yeah, if you want to backup your data in a "secure" manner and don't need to have them read on pc .. then you'll need to format the drive to hfs+ (bare in mind, formating = deletes everything on the drive, so be careful) if you need the data to be readable by a PC, then leave it in fat32 :)

nice to now that the master Zark himself is aware of other system files and data transfer ! to the apple or even from the Apple ! so this item of formating on both systems must be clear now i think ! there is also an great difference to usb and a firewire connection ! wile the usb connection most depends on the processor is the firewire more realibly and less processor depending !

Being the linux hack that I am, I have formatted my external hd in ext3 (apart from a small piece to backup my samples and stuff, that's in fat32).

There is a driver for ext3 filesystems for windows. As osx has *nix based foundation (but differs in as much of linux as windows does) there most likely will be a driver (if not native support) for ext3 on mac as well. A small google search will clear that out for you in no time.

Ext3 supports large files, journaling (makes sure all your data is consistent, even after a crash) and I get the impression that it works faster than ntfs. I'm not sure if it supports compressing date like ntfs does though.