Extreme and USB HD

[kerbouchard]

I have a WD my book 500g. Need to copy stuff to my PC laptop then reformat it to fat 32. Is that correct? I tried to plug it into the Airport extreme but it does not recognize it. I think this is the reason. After reformat will this work for time machine? I want it plugged into the Extreme so I can access it with my laptop also.
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2010 mac mini upgraded to 2.66mghz. Very First Mac Computer
Airport express and Airport extreme
4th gen ipod touch 32g

[billb]

I think if you Google around you'll find
that it doesn't matter how an external
drive connected to an Airport Extreme
is formated. I would format it as HFS+
or NTFS. FAT32 limits your file size to
4GB's.

Oh.......make sure you go into your
Preferences and Check Off "Show
Network Devices" or something
like that. That should be it.
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2011 Mac mini 2.7 GHz i7 with
16GB RAM, Samsung 512GB SSD
MacBook AIR 11 Inch
Mac mini, Model 1.1, 2.33 GHz C2D Proc
20" iMac G4 PPC

[Cypher]

FAT32 is compatible with Mac's and PC's but as billb says it is limited to files under 4GB.

HFS+ is best to use in a Mac only environment and I'd guess with the Airport Extreme.

NTFS is best to use in a Windows only environment. Mac's don't play nicely with NTFS without the addition of some third party apps.


Can't help with the Airport Extreme though as I've never used one.
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Phil

Mac Mini 2.53GHz - iMac 2.0Ghz - Macbook Pro 2.4GHz - iPad 1 32GB 3G
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