Comments on: Airport Extreme is a big disappointment. Or, (10?) Things I Hate About Apple

By: playfans

playfans — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:31:57 +0000

Hey. I dunno if you are still reading the answers for this article. But, HFS+ partition are recognized by windows when they are connected to the AEBS (you may have to install Airport software on your pc first). The software tricks your pc into thinking it is a FAT32 drive, but without the 4GB file limitation (which is kinda cool). Also, FAT32 is not limited to 30GB. On certain systems (MACOSX if I remember well, and maybe recent distros of linux), they support much more (maybe unlimited, my 1TB drive is in FAT32). Windows is still using the old method which only allows you to format in NTFS..

I really enjoy my AEBS. For your printing problems, you should’ve bought a printer with Wifi built in. If not (to me), the only thing you’ll be able to do is printing, with every router.

By: ntfs airport - Eniro

ntfs airport - Eniro — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:30:28 +0000

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By: Ray Tibbitts

Ray Tibbitts — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:03:06 +0000

tell me about it!

By: max

max — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:12:28 +0000

Well, since I also have an OS X machine, that wouldn’t be necessary — but I would need to find a place to dump 200GB of data onto first, which I don’t have. I’ll live with what I’ve got for now, and some day I’ll add a new drive to the AirPort, probably.

Thanks for the ideas, though.

By: hgs

hgs — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:30:41 +0000

From a position of “mostly ignorance”, I see that HFS+ is supported by parted, with which Knoppix comes. Given the common usage of Knoppix is handling damaged systems when
they can only boot from the CD, I wonder if Knoppix on some arbitrary PC can read the old disk, format the new one to HFS+,
and get the data across for you. Have I ever done this? No. But all the stuff I see on Knoppix is about this sort of thing, so hopefully you won’t need to read a shelf of manuals to do it.