Will an External hard drive work between a mac and a pc?

[Jhill]

I want to buy an external hard drive to transfer .jpg .psd and all types of picture formats between a mac and a pc with windows xp. Do I have to format the hard drive a special way? Or what do I need to do so it runs successfully?

Thanks for any help, I've never dealt with a mac before now.

 

[Hacp]

I think external HDs are Fat32 already, so you don't have to format it.

 

[MDE]

It'll have to be formatted FAT32 to work. If the drive is over 30GB you'll have to format it on the Mac because XP won't allow you to create a FAT32 partition larger than that.

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

Originally posted by: MDE
It'll have to be formatted FAT32 to work. If the drive is over 30GB you'll have to format it on the Mac because XP won't allow you to create a FAT32 partition larger than that.

exactly