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What is the best way to format a drive or use other software so that I can use a 1 TB external drive interchangeably between a mac and a windows 7 pc?
thank you. exFAT is read only on windows if formatted by a mac though, right?
If the external drive is connected via USB, then it can be formatted by Windows in NTFS, and will be read-only by OSX "natively": without a 3rd-party software requirement. A FAT32-formatted USB drive has combined: read and write capability natively in both: OSX and Windows.
Any drive (internal or external) can be formatted by Windows in NTFS, and will be read-only by OSX "natively": without a 3rd-party software requirement. A FAT32-formatted drive has combined: read and write capability natively in both: OSX and Windows. FAT32 has a file size limit of 2 Gb.
Right.. i thought about FAT32 but I would like to use the 1 TB drive as one volume, which won't work with FAT32.
thank you. exFAT is read only on windows if formatted by a mac though, right?
If you want to avoid all problems with exFAT, format the drive in Windows with a cluster size less than 1024K. Otherwise you will have issues.
thank you. exFAT is read only on windows if formatted by a mac though, right?