[Macpartners] Is there a file format that Macintosh can write and Windows can read?

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, ShustakC_MIT wrote:

> I have a firewire / external hard disk.  I need to write data from a Macintosh to the drive, which then needs to be read by a Windows PC.  It seems that Mac can read NTFS that has been written by a PC, but the Mac doesn't seem to be able to write in the format.
>
> Is there a way to format a Seagate external hard disk so that the Mac can write to it and the PC can read it?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>

You should have no problems if you format the drive as FAT.  FAT seems to 
be the universal cross-platform standard among the popular OSse - Linux, 
Mac, etc.

Scott