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07-28-2005, 02:24 AM
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Fat32 and mac (?)
I currently have a Lacie external hard drive for storing and recording. It came as Fat32 formatted. Is that ok ? (it seems to do fine) How will it be different if I format it with my mac ? And will my pc be able to read it then ?
What is the ideal way to set up your hard drive for protools on mac ? (and why ?)
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07-28-2005, 09:57 AM
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Re: Fat32 and mac (?)
You cannot use a FAT32 formatted drive with Pro Tools on a Mac. You need to reformat it as HFS+. You could use it as FAT32 as a 'transfer' drive - you can copy data to and from the drive, but you cannot record or play back from it. The PC would be able to read a FAT32 drive or you could use an application called MacDrive to read data from an HFS+ volume on your PC.
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