Format for Macintosh and Windows

Is it possible at all to have my iPod formated for macintosh but still be able to use it as a hard drive on a windows machine?

Mark, I have some questions about this. I just installed a new unformatted 60GB drive into my old 4G iPod. I am on a Win XP Pro platform so I did not want to use the NTFS formatting option before running Updater. I installed a trial copy of Macdrive, but when I try to Mac format that drive it says "An error occurred while examining Removable Disk (J:): Unspecified error". The LCD says it's in Disk Mode but I don't have the checkmark; it still shows the flashing Do Not Disconnect. If I try to Reset and put it manually into disk mode while it's connected via USB to my computer that doesn't work either. I have do disconnect it. I can then get the checkmarked Disk Mode symbol, but the moment I hook it back up via USB I get the Do Not Disconnect.
4G Windows XP Pro

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Now you can be 100% sure, StarDeb!
As another of the old windows guys, I had the same question when I made the change. Windows format works just swimmingly with Macintosh computers. Can't say the same for the other way around.
In fact, the iPod I had at the time, a 15 GB 3G (the one with the red buttons, and still the best looking of the lot), is still formatted for windows even though I have not had a Windows computer for several years now.
So enjoy the Powerbook (just bought a new to me G4 iBook, myself) without fear that the iPod will be a stumbling iBlock.

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I have a similar problem.. I have a normal iPod, and I originally used it on my PC. I recently got an iMac and now iTunes says that "..Windows formatted iPod's cannot be updated on Macintosh computers.." or something very similar to that..
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BTW.. I still have the PC, but would just prefer to control my iPod from the Mac.
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[edit] Ahh, have read another post about this. So if I restore my iPod, will the music be transferred automatically or do I have do do something else for that?? [/edit]
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this is about as good as I could find.
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I have in hand a very strange CD. This is an (old) CD with drivers for a Samsung printer. The CD has drivers for Linux and Windows. But if I mount the CD in Linux, I see only the Linux driver and if I access the CD from Windows, only the Windows drivers are seen. How they can do that ? How can I mount in Linux the CD in order to see the content seen from Windows ?

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Le volume dans le lecteur D s'appelle SAMSUNG_LBP
Le numéro de série du volume est C432-A954
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28/02/2005 00:53 <REP> ML-1610
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dr-xr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Feb 28 2005 Manual/
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-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 51 Feb 28 2005 autorun*
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 bin/
dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 cups/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 data/
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 help/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8517 Feb 28 2005 icon.xpm
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 locale/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 6144 Feb 28 2005 misc/
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 ppd/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 scripts/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 Feb 28 2005 setup.data/
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Volume set id:
Publisher id:
Data preparer id:
Application id: MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 239152
Joliet with UCS level 3 found.
SUSP signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
Rock Ridge id 'RRIP_1991A'
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total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32768 Feb 28 2005 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 28 2005 Desktop DF
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Feb 28 2005 Manual/
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@lolilolicon That explain the result when I mount -t hfs. But the difference in Linux and Windows remain mysterious. How Windows "mount" the CD? I believed it was the equivalent of mount -t iso9660 in Linux but apparently, it is not.
Last edited by olive (2011-09-08 12:12:16)

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