External hard drive problem

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cre8chaos

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I am trying to back up my Dvd's :D to my external hd and it will only take movies under 4gigs do I need to make it (the drive) a different format like fat or ntfs or ? or is it the mac it's self not able to reread it?
 
that could be FAT (I think it has a 2gb limit on files)

if you format the drive as HFS+ (apple FS) then you should be fine, I have a few 10gig+ files on my external drive
 
can windowz read HFS+ ? I do use it on both and a lappy running xp on both pc's and 10.4 OS X
 
MacDrive and MackDisk will allow windows to read the HFS+ filesystem, though i dont know about writing it,
have'nt read all the info, you can do that, but they are not free, actually i have not seen a free software that will allow this.

 
But mac can read NTFS correct, so will a external firewire drive accept a format with that?
Sorry to be a pain here, Just trying to figure it out.
 
So I am stuck with fat as the only one "free" that both can read correct? Ok so mac only then what will solve the size limit and works the best for this situation?
 
Fat32 let me put a 3.8 gig on but error me on a 4.3gig file thought windows can read it, it doesn't help really. I wanted to back up both computers to it but O well.
So lets skip the windoz for now and what it the best one for a Mac format that can handle what I am doing?
 
HFS+ if you want mac only. Try ntfs before you call it quits on your windows box though.
 
But already stated above that Mac can not write to NTFS so that does no good. Thanks though
 
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