ERmorel, thanks so much for your reply.
Before you had time to reply, I was impulsive and had already formated my drive to exFAT at home.
Actually, my testing showed that Smartware running on Windows 7 works fine with exFAT, as far as I can tell. I know a couple of hours of backing up isn’t extensive testing, but all seems to be backing up as normal on my two Windows 7 machines running Smartware.
But you were absolutely correct, because today at work on a Mac, I noticed there is no way to backup unless you are using HFS+. Any Mac OS X backup program requires the HFS+ file system.
So I’ve decided to make 2 partitions to the drive, a small partition of the drive about 300GB formated in HFS+, that I will use with Time Machine for Mac OS X backups. The big partition will be whatever is left (~1.7TB) and formated in exFAT, which I will use to backup Windows 7 with Smartware and to store files from both Mac and PC.
If anyone has any warnings or advice, concerning such a setup please leave a reply.
Thanks in advance
