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Hard drive file systems for use with multiple operating systems?

Where I work, we constantly switch between Linux, Windows and Mac OS X machines. We use a lot of external hard drives which mostly come preformatted as NTFS. This is a problem because Mac OS X by ...
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How can I connect to my Airport Extreme Shared Disk using Windows?

I have a shared disk attached to my Airport Extreme, which I can connect to remotely in OS X through the finder via command - k, and entering in the proper address: afp://test.dyndns.org:1111 1111 ...
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Time Machine/iMac loses all trace of external hard drive after a few days

First time posting, also a Mac newbie (recent windows convert) so I'm hoping I can get some help here :) I have a Hitachi Deskstar drive in an external casing that I got from ebuyer. (its one of ...
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OS X HD as USB HD (to PC)

Is it possible to hook up a Mac to a PC via USB, and have direct access to the hard drive? Is there any software that could do this?
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how do I get my mac to recognize a mass storage device

I can't get my mac to recognize an external mass storage device
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Can PC boot fom Mac OS X Extended Journaled?

Is my PC able to boot from my external USB formatted to Mac OS X Extended Journaled? It works fine on my Mac, but I want to boot from it on my Windows (PC).
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MAC OC10.2.8 formatting an external hard drive

Am I stuck risking the loss of files while upgrading? I need to upgrade my iMAC 800Mhz OS10.2.8 to 10.4. However I'm afraid I'll lose pics, music, documents...etc. So I opted for an external hard ...
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OS X: Best method for Time Machine-like backup of one external HD to another?

Time Machine is great, but it only backs up your boot drive. I'm looking for a way to one-click synchronize one external hard drive to another, without simply overwriting everything every time (ie, ...
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Fix screen resolution of macbook external monitor

I have a macbook 13" for about 3 years now, and last weekend I decided to format the disk and reinstall everything. Turns out that after reinstall Leopard, install all available updates, and connect ...