External back up for Mac and PC?

I just helped a friend sort out a few problems with his laptop running Vista. His wife uses a Mac to do freelance graphics. When I returned his laptop She asked:

Can I use 1 external HD to back up both computers?

I have No experience with Mac's. I don't know if it can be done.

Idea's.

Thanks

 

It can.

Set the backup directory to a specific name for the Windows machine. OS X will use its own directory for time machine.

If they are both hooking up locally, you will need either:

An NTFS driver for OS X -or-
An HFS+ driver for Windows.

In other words, you need to make each OS make the filesystem readable (and writable).

If you are doing it over a network, you won't need to worry about that.

This is my backup partition for Time Machine. As you can see it doesn't have to be dedicated to Time Machine.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/TgnmtiR3UvN49apeEUAu-3LSoXBZfV0QlgmEda_pRFI=w845-h549-no

 

Cool. Just name the Backup HDD (ie) G: for the laptop and the Mac will do it's own. They have a wireless network, So when they are ready to backup their info just use G: as the drive.

I'm still leaning. I'll read up on this some before I offer to help.


An NTFS driver for OS X -or-
An HFS+ driver for Windows Is this Backwards?

Thanks James