[Rainer]

1) "FAT" is basically a synonym for FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 ... for the drive you linked

(which is a 500GB device) FAT12 or FAT16 are simply not sufficient to address all

the space on the device, therefore, FAT32 is needed. If you format the drive with

FAT, the formatter will (likely) select FAT32 implicitely.



2) Yes, FAT(32) will work without a problem in Win7, as it did in WinXP ... but

there are restrictions (for both XP and Win7) which are due to FAT itself:

No files larger than 2GB (eventually a restriction with videofiles). No

priviledges as there are in NTFS.



3) Tiff supports various internal representations for images. One of the

very basic things that Tiff does, is to allow Intel- and Motorola- bygteordering

to be used (you will notice this in the fileheader of the Tiff file ... "MM" or "II"

are the first 2 bytes). So, a file from a Mac might (depending on the processor

used) use Motorola byteordering, whereas one from Windows will use Intel-

byteordering ... however, a program understanding the Tif-Fileformat is required

to handle both ... so you will not notice any difference due to this.



Rainer