Two time machine questions i cannot find an answer for ...

1) i use a 1 TB time capsule to back up my macbook. can i use this back up to restore to a windows computer in case of a macbook crash ? ( no plans to shift back to windows, but just need to know. )
2) i also separately back up my 395 GB music collection on a seagate 500 GB external hard disk. i used to keep this in the Mac OS extended ( journaled) format without the slightest idea what that format means. the other day i tried copying some music onto a friends windows machine , and it would not even recognise the external drive in this format . another drive in the FAT 32 format was recognised.
as i am the only mac user in my group, would it be safer to make this secondary back up in FAT 32 format, so that i could use someone's windows machine to get back my music in case of a macbook crash ?

1) i use a 1 TB time capsule to back up my macbook. can i use this back up to restore to a windows computer in case of a macbook crash ?
No. When using a Time Capsule, each user's backup is stored in a special disk image format called a .sparsebundle.
I'm not aware of any utility on Windows that can open a .sparsebundle file to retrieve the files.
i used to keep this in the Mac OS extended ( journaled) format without the slightest idea what that format means. the other day i tried copying some music onto a friends windows machine , and it would not even recognise the external drive in this format . another drive in the FAT 32 format was recognised.
Right - Windows systems can't read most non-Windows disk formats, including Mac OS X's Extended format (whether journaled or not).
There are some Windows utilities such as MacDrive that enable this ability on Windows machines, but they're not part of the standard Windows OS.
In most cases, especially if you're in the minority, the easiest solution is to use the lowest common denominator and format the disk as FAT32, which both systems can use.

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