aight so i just bought an external HD for my thinkpad. i partitioned it into 2 sections, both as NTFS.

im going to be doing video editing with Final Cut Pro obviously on Apple computers in the computer lab.

when i hooked it up, i was denied permissions to write to the hard drive (in the lab). I know apple computers wont write to ntfs, but now im having trouble converting it.

what is the best format/how can i format it? the drive is blank. i think fat32 would be best, but apparently you can only partition it to 32GB each in fat32.

sorry for the jumbled thoughts & questions.. but any help would be much appreciated. thanks

9/28/2006 10:09:24 PM

obligatory "apple blows"

9/28/2006 10:21:15 PM

no you should definitely go with FAT, screw the 32 stuff, unless it is iFAT32. And NTFS is not coo at all

9/28/2006 10:24:34 PM

hook it up to one of the linux machines and format it with FAT32 (they lat you do that on the eos machnes, right?). FAT32 partitions are allowed to be way bigger than 32GB, but that's the limit that Windows imposes.

9/29/2006 1:03:30 AM

I dont know about formatting with the school lab computers, they might be kinda restrictive, as most programs that let you format one drive will let you format the others, and they dont want people fucking up their workstations

try the gparted livedisk http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
or download the ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ livecd (the 'desktop' install cd, also provides a live demo) it has gparted as a separate app you can run

I think that fat32 has a problem with files bigger than 4 gigs, could be an issue with large video files
but if you need to transfer between windows and mac I think its one of the few that are read and writable by each...

[Edited on September 29, 2006 at 1:43 AM. Reason : asdf]

9/29/2006 1:41:55 AM

yup thats the problem im running into

right now my video files are split so it's aight.. hopefully i dont have any 4GB+... if i do then i dunno how i'll move it

for now i added two 32GB FAT32 partitions... the reason windows limits them to 32GB is supposedly they become unstable much larger than that, and have more problems with fragmented files

9/29/2006 7:48:21 AM