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Originally Posted by synthetic  It's a Windows machine. FAT32 drives can't be bigger than a few GB. |
This is incorrect. FAT32 supports partitions over 2TB, larger than any drive made today, depending on how large the cluster size used.
What you are mistaking is the arbitrary 32GB partition size limit that WinXP imposes for formatting FAT32 drives. There are formatting utilities available to make FAT32 volumes much larger. Up to 8TB with 32K clusters, IIRC.
For whatever reason, Microsoft decided to force users towards NTFS when using larger partitions. However, if OSX could write to NTFS partitions, the world of file transfer would certainly be a little easier to deal with.