![]() ![]() Both OSes access teh exact same files just fine (just not at the same time). I keep my Thunderbird profiles (and caches) on the Mac Partition, and I keep my FireFox profiles (and caches) on my Windows 7 partition. This also allows my BootCamp partition to have full access to the Mac boot partition so I have less wasted space. I did buy drivers for 3 of the 5 ThinkPads in the end because some of my Mac utilities really do work better with HFS+ formatted drives. With FAT32, it is recommended that the volume/partition size of the external hard drive not exceed 32 GB. You will be able to copy data from, but not to, the external hard drive. In my house, we have 5 ThinkPads that run Windows XP or Windows 7, so it was cheaper for me to keep my MacBook Pro's external drives formatted NTFS and buy a driver for it to get ful access to the NTFS drives than for me to buy drivers for 5 PC's to get write access to my HFS+ formatted drives. For non-GoFlex drives, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or later works with local NTFS-formatted volumes, but the volume will be read-only. The Paragon drivers seem a little faster and support a few NTFS features a little better, but I have had no problems with either of those. I used the free NTFS-3G drivers for a few years with no issues, and I "upgraded" to the Paragon commercial drivers earlier this year. ![]()
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