Comments on: Backing up to a HDD in a cross-platform world http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2004%2F07%2F30%2Fbacking-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Backing+up+to+a+HDD+in+a+cross-platform+world bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:11:27 +0000 By: anonymous http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2004%2F07%2F30%2Fbacking-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world%2F%23comment-75804&seed_title=Backing+up+to+a+HDD+in+a+cross-platform+world#comment-75804 anonymous Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:12:22 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2004/07/30/backing-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world/#comment-75804 <p>Posted on July 30th, 2004, yet still the most up to date breakdown of cross-platform external hard-drives.</p> <p>An extra idea for anybody going for the HFS+ option, you may want to <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030613121738812">create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive</a>, having a small "buffer" FAT32 partition.</p> <p>The MacDrive installer would reside on this partition so that when plugging the external drive into a windows environment, the FAT32 partition with the MacDrive installer is there if you need to get to the rest of your HFS+ drive contents.</p> <p>And also, if you make the FAT32 partition sufficiently large (what is 10GB lost on a 500GB external drive, really?), you have sufficient space to quickly transfer smaller files between platforms without the need to install MacDrive first!</p> Posted on July 30th, 2004, yet still the most up to date breakdown of cross-platform external hard-drives.

An extra idea for anybody going for the HFS+ option, you may want to create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive, having a small "buffer" FAT32 partition.

The MacDrive installer would reside on this partition so that when plugging the external drive into a windows environment, the FAT32 partition with the MacDrive installer is there if you need to get to the rest of your HFS+ drive contents.

And also, if you make the FAT32 partition sufficiently large (what is 10GB lost on a 500GB external drive, really?), you have sufficient space to quickly transfer smaller files between platforms without the need to install MacDrive first!

]]> By: justin http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2004%2F07%2F30%2Fbacking-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world%2F%23comment-75781&seed_title=Backing+up+to+a+HDD+in+a+cross-platform+world#comment-75781 justin Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:20:51 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2004/07/30/backing-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world/#comment-75781 <p>Yes, I concur. Thanks for this excellent post, I especially like how you explain a variety of options!</p> Yes, I concur. Thanks for this excellent post, I especially like how you explain a variety of options!

]]> By: Callum http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2004%2F07%2F30%2Fbacking-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world%2F%23comment-185&seed_title=Backing+up+to+a+HDD+in+a+cross-platform+world#comment-185 Callum Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2004/07/30/backing-up-to-a-hdd-in-a-cross-platform-world/#comment-185 This is the most useful post I've read on the subject, thank you so much for doing the dirty work. And! Inspiring me to share my "finds" and various mac discoveries, because we always get lost in this crazzy cross-platform world! This is the most useful post I've read on the subject, thank you so much for doing the dirty work. And! Inspiring me to share my "finds" and various mac discoveries, because we always get lost in this crazzy cross-platform world!

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