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So when you drag a disk to the Trash you must wait for it to ‘spin down’ and then eject it manually. Most non-Apple drives don’t self-eject.In addition, leaving a removable disk engaged during startup can cause problems. Non- Mac external hard disk drives may need to be switched on before applying power to the machine.Individual partitions can only be erased if all the partitions use the same filing system, while special software is needed to format or resize partitions on disks with more than one system.

These appear separately on the desktop, although only Mac partitions are shown if the disk has both Mac and MS-DOS partitions. It also allows a hard disk drive or removable disk to be divided into a number of partitions, each formatted to the FAT ( MS-DOS), Mac OS or ProDOS standards. Mac ​ OS ​ Extended ​ Format ​ (HFS ​ Plus) Mac ​ OS ​ Format ​ (Hierarchical ​ Filing ​ System ​ or ​ HFS) To the best of the author’s knowledge it supports several filing systems, including the following:- Filing ​ System ​ (Format) Mac OS X has the ability to format, read or write data to a PC-standard disk. However, it is possible to use applications based on generic coding, such as Java, or programs designed around Unix. Most Mac OS applications can’t be launched on a PC.To run Windows applications on Mac (rather than just transfer data from one platform to another) you must use PC emulation software, such as Virtual PC (Connectix).The terms PC and Windows are often used interchangeably to refer to the same computer platform, since most PC owners employ Windows, although the latter isn’t compulsory.Fortunately, Mac OS conversion software is available to fix both of these problems. Sadly, the codes from 128 to 255 often generate the wrong characters, a result of the different character sets used in the two platforms. If all else fails, a standard text file can be used to transfer information between the two types of computer, although the arrangement of CR (carriage return) and LF (line feed) codes may need to be changed to give the correct line endings. TrueType, OpenType or PostScript fonts designed for Windows can also be with Mac OS X. GIF, HTML, JPEG, MIDI, MP3, PNG, QIF ( Quicken Interchange Format), RTF, Text, TIFF, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia FreeHand, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word.