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Originally Posted by sureno
can you afford a cheap £100 PC? i wouldn't dream of putting windows on any of my macs, if you removed windows do you think your mac will see your external again, the only partition mac and PC can both view is FAT32 i believe?
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You are slightly wrong there. In Osx 10.4, there ws a fiddlesome workaround involving a 3rd party software that allowed for reading and writing to NTFS volumes. From 10.5.1 onwards, support for NTFS drives was built into OSX. So Fat32 is no longer the only option.
It's looking like I can't make enough space in the OSX partition to save the external. Its used nearly 40 gig and is around 35% done. So I'm guessing the best way is to forget saving the externa and just format it, so that I can go from scratch on the OSX and XPs...
And macs are better at running windows then most PCs are. Infact, tests showed the fastest laptop for Windows...was a mac model !