Problems with SmartDisk Firelite 80gb and Mac Mini

I purchased a SmartDisk Firelite 80gb hard drive to use to dump documents/itunes library onto to free up room on my mini itself. Thing is I work in an MAC/XP enviroment and I would like to be able to go between the both with no problem. The thing is I don't want to use the FAT file system. I would like to use a more secure format. Thing is what is a format the both can read? .. and How can obtain this? I'm not sure if i can partition this particular drive, that is the problem.
Please help !!!!
-thank you .. brian

Hi Brian,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
I believe only FAT32 (MSDOS) are the only Mac OS X and XP compatible volume format. Yes, you can partition your hard drive; you should look at Partitioning a hard disk. You may want to look at Mac OSX Hints: Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive.. Your hard drive should be in FAT32 already, so you shouldn't have to reformat it.
Jon
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