Dear mikerunkel,
First thing we can't make half HFS and half NTFS partition on the same drive at the same time. When you make half NTFS and then connect it to MAC to make HFS partition MAC Disk Utility will prompt you that this process will destroy old partition table and all data on Partition 1 (NTFS) will be lost. Same thing happens if you try to make HFS first. I have tried twice but no success. I may be doing it wrong way, I'll appreciate if you can explain it.
We can assign FAT32 to a low capacity partition. I am using LACIE 500GB backup drive. If I use FAT32 it means I have to make 10 or 12 FAT32 partitions which is not a wise solution.
I have to take regular back of my systems ( one power book, one desktop computer). Currently I have assigned complete disk space to HFS and taking the backup of desktop through network. It has slowed down the process.
Imtiaz,
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by: leewPosted on 2005-01-20 at 13:27:13ID: 13097701
Hi mikerunkel,
> 1. Can Mac OSX 10.3 read a NTFS formatted HD?
Per this article, Mac OSX can READ NTFS drives. It cannot write to them (though this may be possible with some third party driver)
http://www.kernelthread.co
> 2. If not, would it be possible to format it half NTFS half whatever mac uses?
Sure. You just want to partition the drive into two partitions.
> 3. What is the file system for Mac called? HPFS or something like that?
HFS+ is the preferred file system for Mac OS X. See the previous link.
But why not format it as FAT32 instead. Mac can read and write that as can all versions of Windows from 95B on and from 2000 on (NT4 can't but you can get a third party driver that will).
Cheers!