- #EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC FOR MAC#
- #EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC MAC OS#
- #EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC SOFTWARE#
#EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC SOFTWARE#
However the same rules apply, only PCs with this software will see drives formatted for Macs. Connect the Seagate the external hard drive to Windows OS, download.
#EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC FOR MAC#
Otherwise, you can have a drive as NTFS to allow to work on any PC and then install on your Mac a free app from the Apple website called NTFS-3G, which allows your Mac to fully use (read and write) to NTFS and also do automatic backups with no restrictions on both systems, but since it is done using the NTFS-3G software, this configuration will only work on YOUR Mac and the others will only read from the drive (But they won’t be able to add files).Īlso, you can have the drive as HFS+ to allow you to use it on any Mac and then install on Windows a program called HFSExplorer (Free), which allows you to read (see and copy out) drives formatted for Mac (But not write, so you can’t add files) or you can install MacDrive (NOT free), which is a software able to allow full HFS+ integration (Read and write) on a PC, meaning that it is the exact opposite to NTFS-3G. Conversely, you can format the HD to APFS and use Paragon's APFS for Windows to read and write to the Mac-formatted hard drive. Be careful though, if you are using Disk Utility to format the drive, you should make sure to choose the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme (hit.
#EXTERNAL HDD FORMAT FOR WINDOWS AND MAC MAC OS#
Transferring files between the two operating systems is less of a hassle, since you don. FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) by Disk Utility a filesystem originally released in 1977 and updated a few times since, lastly in 1996) really is the only cross platform filesystem that is going to work fully out of the box with Windows and Mac OS X.
You can format a drive as FAT32, which would allow it to work on BOTH Windows and Mac, but it won’t do automatic backups, won’t take files larger than 4GB and will have a high risk of data corruption Option 2: Format to APFS and use a different Paragon app. exFAT is a good option if you work often with Windows and Mac computers.
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