How to format an external hard drive - to be accessed by mac and pc

I have four large video files on my mac pro that I to transfer to a friend's external hard drive. It's a new hard drive so is unformatted at present. My friend has a Vista laptop and XP PC which I know won't recognise a Mac formatted drive.
What is the easiest and quickest way to transfer the files (approx 90GB each) to the hard drive. I did consider networking but that might take ages!! :-(( Once on the external drive, my friend wants edit them.
Thanks for your help in advance.

Format ur external Hard Disk with HFS format then access it from windows by (HFS Explorer) here is the link of that software
http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html
you can extract anything from HFS format hard disks..the program is free also

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