Lacie External Hard drive with Windows XP

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johnwill said:

Windows XP will recognize any size FAT32 volume, it just won't let you create one larger than 32gigs.

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I'm sorry, this is more of what I am trying to ask about... Can I have this drive as one big 160 gig drive or do I really need to have 5 different partitions? I would like to use this drive for viedo editing and I would rather have it one partition so there is no problems in the programming of the video stuff. I dont want to be in the middle of editing and have it tell me I need to switch partitions because one is too full.

What if I take it to the Mac first. I know that will see it as one drive with one big partition. If I format it on the Mac for FAT32 and then bring it to my PC will the PC recognize it because it is already formated?

Thanks very much so far.
-Shawn

I am told Mac doesnt recognize NTFS. Thats why I wanted to do FAT32.

So your saying that I CAN go to a Mac and format it as one drive then bring it to my PC and since it will be formated it will see it as one partition? Otherwise I will have to go get Partition Magic or something. I knew that was one option but I was just checking if I can do that without buying anything else. Are there any other good programs like Partition Magic? Also... is there any way to read an HFS partitions on Windows XP.

Thanks for replying,
-Shawn

I think I found my solution to what I wanted to do. MacDrive 5 by MediaFour. It's a program to let windows run HFS+. So I went to a Mac and hooked the drive up and it was already formated with that. So I checked out this program through the trial version and my PC (Win XP) is running it and sees the on partitioned drive. It does cost $30 but I figure it is worth it so I'll probably just go ahead and buy it.

Any one else use this program? How do you like it?

Thanks for all that replied.

-Shawn