Have you made any progress on this issue? I have the same question still unresolved. Lemme know. Thanks.
I just bought a 300G external hardrive that has both USB 2.0 and firewire. I want to be able to write and read data from my Mac G4 (OS X 10.3.5), and from my PC (Windows XP). I am hoping to use this drive interchangbly between both machines. I will only be using it for files (jpeg, mp3, video clips, wav. files) not to run programs off of. Is there a program that makes this possible? If so how should I format the drive? Which format, and on which machine should I format the drive? Do I need to partition the drive? If so, is it possible to partition half the drive for PC and half for Mac?
Thanks in advance!

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