I have a western Digital external HD formatted in FAT 32. It reads quite well on my apple and windows computers.

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Now, I can open and read a NTFS HD connected to my mac. I can even drag files from it onto my mac. I just can't write to it. But, I also have a Seagate FreeAgent Go that I formatted just for use on my mac.

I use this for storing large projects and software to transport from school, to work, to home. When I plug it into a windows PC running XP. It won't even be recognized as a hard drive. That is why I asked. If reformatting to FAT 32 for a PC to be able to read apple produced files is the only way, then it is the only way.

I will grant that I could have asked if there was a windows utility to allow a MS machine to read an apple formatted HD or that I could have been more descriptive of just what I wanted to accomplish. I may know a great deal about some complicated pieces of audio/video and graphic software but I am extremely ignorant about what makes my computer actually work. Thus, telling me that FAT32 is my only option would have been a wee bit more informative than stating 'then do that' was. If you did the initialization, format, inside Disk Utility, you are done.

It does not take much more that 30 seconds or so to initialize a disk. You can check by going to the System Profiler, Apple menu/About this Mac and then clicking More on the resulting window. Then choose the type of connection your external is using, Firewire or USB, and you will see details of everything connected using that method. You are looking for HFS+(journaled) Just as an FYI, Firewire is the preferred method of connecting external drives, including optical drives, to a Mac. I had a problem getting files from my old PC (Win 98) to my new iMac. I finally borrowed a HDD enclosure (Icy Box). Put my old HDD in plugged it in and hey presto got everything I needed except my address book.

I didn't even need to move the jumpers to 'slave'. I then thought about re formatting the disk for Mac OS using Disk Utility but then realised there may be a problem for PCs to read or write to the disk. It is formatted in FAT 32 and the Mac has no problem reading or writing to it. It is connected via USB 2 so probably not the fastest transfer but. FAT 32 seems to work well for both platforms. I hope this is useful to some of you.

It's not really a flaw, but FAT32 wasn't really designed to be used on large hard drives. In your case, Win 98 must've been a small HD, hence why FAT32 would work perfectly for your needs. I have a 200GB HD and FAT32 slowly degrades in performance over time. Also, there would be a lot of wasted space by using FAT32 on a larger HD.

I just wanted to say that I solved my problem by following the Macfuse method. I had to save my data to another hard disk, then format the drive in Mac format, transfer the files back to the newly formatted HD, and use the network and/or flash drive if I needed to transfer any data to/from a Windows computer.

I decided not to get Macfuse because I barely use my Windows PC anymore. Again, this method works for me because I'm on the Mac most of the time.