What format for my HD

I just bought a d2 Lacie external hd for my powerbook so that i can fit all those videos... i wanted to know what format i should put the external hd in... i would like to be able to use it with windows computers but if there is a big differance then i can sacrifice it...
Thanks, Phil

Phillip
External drives should be Mac OS Extended with Journaling off.
I'm pretty sure you can make a partition and assign that to IBM windows format.
This may prove helpful:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
Al

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on while here and when they leave my 12 wk. course. I
encourage them if they have a Mac laptop to partition
their external drive to have one partition for
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