[DM-MUG] Re: Installing Leopard

[Matthew W.]

Generally, yes. Getting files onto a drive from Windows only allows  
you one option-FAT16 or 32 (or various other flavors of NTFS, etc).  
You did what you had to do. From the Mac side, you can use just about  
all of these above, though I believe NTFS is read-only, er no, that's  
ZFS under Leopard... Anyway, the Mac should read the generic WIN/PC  
format (the FAT, which stands for File Allocation Table listed above)  
just fine, but for the best long-term compatibility, moving the data  
back to a Mac-friendly format is something you could plan for and  
implement slowly. Perhaps buy a smaller-sized drive that just exactly  
fits what you have now, clone that to the new drive and keep it as an  
archive. Or get a whopping huge drive, format it HFS+ (or GUID for  
Intel/10.5), and copy the current data to the new bucket and keep it  
around as a big storage unit. Repurpose current drive as a direct  
bootable clone that automatically does Time Machine (if you're on  
10.5) or SuperDuper if you're not. License it for Pro use so you CAN  
automate the clone on a regular basis.

Just a few options. There are undoubtedly more.

Matthew

On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Vincent Valdez wrote:

> Can the clone and the PC derived files co-exist on the ex hd?