What is the best way to format a Airport Disk?
I purchased a Airport Extreme Base Station recently and as well have a Western Digital 500MB My Book drive. I will be using it with the base station but it's not formatted and I wondered which way I should format it. Not knowing better since I have a Windows XP machine I formatted it in NTFS and realized later it won't work with this. It seems I need either Fat32 or HFS+.
Which format is best for me to go with? I know if I use Fat32 unlike HFS+ I can use it directly on a WinXP machine but most of the time if not all I will use it through the Airport Base Station and those few times I won't will hook it up directly to my MBP. When I format what is the best way to go about formatting the drive?
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markw10] at [2007-11-16 2:54:57]
# 1 Re: What is the best way to format a Airport Disk?
I'd say just do FAT32. If there's the possibility of unhooking the drive and using it on a computer, it will let you use it with Windows and OSX without buying any extra programs.
smax at 2007-11-17 10:25:39 >
# 2 Re: What is the best way to format a Airport Disk?
I purchased a Airport Extreme Base Station recently and as well have a Western Digital 500MB My Book drive. I will be using it with the base station but it's not formatted and I wondered which way I should format it. Not knowing better since I have a Windows XP machine I formatted it in NTFS and realized later it won't work with this. It seems I need either Fat32 or HFS+.
Which format is best for me to go with? I know if I use Fat32 unlike HFS+ I can use it directly on a WinXP machine but most of the time if not all I will use it through the Airport Base Station and those few times I won't will hook it up directly to my MBP. When I format what is the best way to go about formatting the drive?
See my post here (#7)
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?p=1047068#post1047068
It's been working flawlessly for about 2 months.
