As you can see my 250GB Mac HDD is in perfect health. MacDrive also has the ability to format and repair Mac drives. Windows based partition tools also don?t work on the MBP due to the non standard partitions that BootCamp creates, AND due to the fact that the MBP chokes on DR DOS, the OS that most of these tools use. It also limits you to just ONE additional partition, meaning you get a Mac drive, a Windows drive and that?s it from BootCamp. BootCamp limits the size of a FAT32 partition to just 32GB. My problem wasn?t a file size limit, but a partition/drive size limit from BootCamp. With files over 10GB, FAT32 wasn?t an option. #Macdive review mac os x#The problem is that standard NTFS formatted drives, like those used by Windows 2000, XP and Vista, can?t be written to under Mac OS X (yet), and FAT32, which works on both Mac and Windows, has a limit of 4GB for each file. Network storage is nice, but I?d rather have my total solution internal to my MacBook Pro. Unlike Mitch, I don?t have USB hard drives, and don?t want to carry then around the house. Where in the world and I going to store data on an internal notebook drive, when some space is taken up by my BootCamp partition, and there is at least 30-40GB taken up by both OSX 10.4.8 and Windows XP SP2 (and all of its updates)? This is a big problem for me. Where would I store it? After all is said and done, its going to need at least 100GB. When I tried to do my first video editing project on my new MacBook Pro, I hit a wall. I do this particularly when editing video, as the files created are large, and temporary files for effects and previews quickly add up. I like to have as much free space as possible on my internal drive, so I often use external HDDs. One area that has frustrated me is data storage. Except for a few programs that I can?t find equivalents for in Mac OS X, it has gone pretty smoothly. Since my switch to Mac back in December I haven?t had very many problems integrating my MacBook Pro into my life. Mitchell’s comments in Black, Chris’ comments in Blue
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