External harddrives not interchangeable between Windows & Mac?

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2. Yes - I just found an article about reformatting

If I can find someone with a Mac I can get it reformatted to FAT32 with a 2TB partition size - much more practical than the 32 GB size available from Windows 7!

I was looking at 3 to 4 TB external drives on the Best Buy site. I figure if I get one locally I might be able to get them to do the reformatting for me. I don't know anyone that has a Mac other than my sister - or anyone else that I discuss computers with, anyway.

While the images themselves will not be that large, the folders they are in might be. I have to decide whether to scan to TIFF which is the usual format I use for archiving photos or if I should use JPEG or some other format that will be easier for my not very computer savvy sister and brother in law to use. Once the images are scanned I can use PhotoShop to batch covert or re-size.

I've got a feeling that I will need to do like the old Kodak PhotoCDs and provide multiple sizes for printing, viewing on computer and email or web use. If I do that, I wonder about the possibility of burning each group of slide scans to DVD with the different sizes?

GAH! I'm going to have to research Mac computers and what they can read! I HATE APPLE COMPUTER.