vandall Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 Hi All, I am reaching the final stages of my studio upgrade to Logic 7 (8 possibly!). I will be dual booting between windows and osx by way of choosing the physical hard drive on boot up. I use a fast 80 gig for working audio projects and sample storage/access at the moment, with a 320 gig for storage of masters and old projects etc... My question is this....OSX seems to have no problem reading FAT32.... would running Logic on OSX reading+writing to my FAT32 working drive be very unwise? OSX will be used purely for Logic... post editing , mp3 encoding and everything else will be done back in windows world. I obviosuly need to be able to open files at either end... if running a FAT32 working drive isn't wise then maybe use Mac Drive in windows to access this drive? Also a quicky... I have used an IDE mounted in a USB enclosure to install and test OSX to date.. obivously I will want to be running from an internal SATA what software should I use to clone the USB to SATA? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64528-logic-and-fat32-vs-hfs-copying-osx-install-from-usb-to-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
XeroGlitch Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 I dont see any problem with reading and writing to fat32. I think Apple suggest it. Someone did , lol. Now i do. I have a Mac OS X journal hard drive for OSX NTFS hard drive for Windows and a Fat32 for software apps, music, videos. The fat32 is easily readable and write able for Mac now, much easier. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64528-logic-and-fat32-vs-hfs-copying-osx-install-from-usb-to-sata/#findComment-466643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_stick Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 logic will have no problem reading/writing to a fat32 drive - i've done so a few times on a real mac, however fat32 does have a few limitations and annoyances as files get fairly large, so as long as you're not working with single files that are over a gb (i think 2gb is the maximum file size fat32 allows) you should be fine as for cloning the drive - check the seagate website for a program called "discwizard," it only works on internal drives iirc, but if you connect your drive internally you should be fine - you'll get a pop-up message telling you that cloning hte disc is "not supported" for drives other than seagate drives, but with the version i used it let you do it anyway Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64528-logic-and-fat32-vs-hfs-copying-osx-install-from-usb-to-sata/#findComment-466648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XeroGlitch Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Soon as i open my mouth trouble starts... I mistakenly hit the reset on my PCs tower and when i rebooted my fat 32 and ntfs mounts are showing in disk utility but does not mount. Further more it doesnt show my Volume names i created "MY data" and "Windows XP" for the other harddrive. it's back to disk0s1 and disk0s2. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/64528-logic-and-fat32-vs-hfs-copying-osx-install-from-usb-to-sata/#findComment-467215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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