Which Format Mac supports????

hi,
I just now ordered a Mac Tiger 10.4.8 for my Intel PC

I need to know which Format Mac supports
i.e. like windows xp support FAT32 and NTFS

Need help urgently coz this is my 1st Mac intslall, it would be helpful if somene guides me fully

Thanks

 

Mac OS Extended / HFS extended.

Mac OS cannot write on NTFS format. i.e if you create a partition via bootcamp for windows, you won't be able write on the Disk, when Mac OS is opened. Also, you might have trouble if your removable disk is NTFS.

Though Mac OS does read Fat32 beautifully

 

so is there any way to convert my NTFS drive to HFS????

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Install_On_A_Partition_Simple_And_Accurate
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060628150518481

 

Hi, thanks.. i just now finished installing my Mac Os

so now i have
C: - Windows Vista
D: - Mac Os

but when i start the PC im not getting any option to chose the OS and it directly boots into Windows Vista....
Please help
How can i enable the the OS option?????? or directly boot into Mac OS

 

Try this
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/multibooting.html

 

I tried this awhile back with no luck. I just bought a Mac and I can easily run Vista or XP on it

 

Thats the best way, OSx runs best on Mac ! And Windows & Linux Runs well on Mac
@Holy Devil, I have a friend in DP, who has installed mac on PC successfully, have PM'd him .

 

Thank you iWonder.
I installed Mac on my PC but since it didnt showed up i formated my drive, but that drive wasnt in primary so i tired to make that drive primary, after few mins i finished converting the drive into primary but when i restarted the whole HDD was erased and all my imp files were gone, can you pls help me on getting those files back???
i tried Acronis recovery, Hirens Boot CD, recover lost data; softwares but none worked

 

Did your whole harddisk get erased ? I mean , see how much space if filled in the drive. If the drive is completely formatted - that would be trouble.

 

the HD shows 2GB of space and rest unallocated space of 70GB
When i checked through computer management in control panel
the HD had windows Xp installed in it even thats erased
For temp purpose i have attached my frnds 200GB HD with vista loaded in it so that way i can see what is there in my 80GB HD

 

Does vista read the data in the 2GB space ? Is that what you are trying to recover ? Any Idea how much data was there previously ?

 

The total data in the 80GB HDD was around 50GB
the 2Gb is just allocated space which i dont know how it was created the main data is in the rest of unallocated the space
Even the 2Gb space is not accessible

 

Sorry mate but I think you lost your datas. Though try some other recovery softwares, see if they might be able recover something.

 

Np buddy, i deleted the partion in 80Gb HDD and again ran the recovery software and this time i got some files from my HDD but unluckily the softwares were corrupt. Thanks for the help