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James, I have to agree with you on the basis that many times our XP machine here at the office is very slow and sluggish when it starts up. I have been an Apple fan for many years and really do not like working on windows machines, but I have to ask. Are you a complete retard? One of the first things that us apple users learn is that Mac formatted drives (HSF+) do not work on windows, which uses Fat32 or NTFS. Were you not around for the floppy and Zip drive days when they would actually sell preformatted Mac or PC disks? The only way to share your "Plug n' Play" hard drive between a mac and a PC is to a) install a program like MacDrive on the PC, which enables windows to read HSF and HSF+ drives, or b) format your drive as a FAT32 drive on a PC in the first place, which you can then reead on your mac, depending on which version of the OS you are using. I have heard a rumor that you can now read NTFS formatted disks on OSX now, but I give them until 10.4.2 to break it. I use nothing but Macs at home and at work, and I listen to my mac bashing friends all the time, but nothing gets me going more that listening to idiot zealots make the rest of us Apple fans look like choads with opinions based on ignorance.