- Can you use the same external hard drive for Mac and PC? And in this post I have shown you how to take a drive that wont work for PC and Mac and make it shareable. I have shown you how to format hard drive for Mac and Windows. There are other alternatives. Buy a hard drive already formatted as ExFAT.
- Oct 13, 2009 Sharing an External Drive Between a PC and a Mac, exFAT Discussion, Results fa icon='long-arrow-left' Back to all posts fa icon='pencil' Posted.
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Exfat For Mac Os X
ExFAT is the file system I recommend for external USB disks. Fortunately for Mac users, Apple has an agreement with Microsoft and so OS X supports exFAT drives (as of Snow Leopard). You can plug in an external exFAT USB drive and read and write to it on your Mac. You can take an existing disk and reformat it as exFAT right from OSX.
https://counterever697.weebly.com/free-stop-motion-software-for-mac.html. Journeled extended for Mac
if you are installing Windows you will need a dedicated partition for it, you can't install on top of OS X. The windows installer will provide the correct format during installation.
Solitiare for mac.
Exfat For Mac Os X
FAT is for DOS, or sharing files between mac and windows and any other OS that can read it. FAT format does not keep permissions and ownerships. It's very outdated for OS's, it's great for flash drives and data drives when you share files, otherwise if you don't need to share you probably don't need FAT. FAT also has file more severe file size restrictions.
Exfat For Mac
Oct 19, 2015 12:33 PM