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I just got a seagate external harddrive. I want to use it share data between a mac and a PC. Can I run NTFS on the hd, or do I need something else?
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If you want to fully share files between Mac & PC you need it to be formatted as FAT32. Although NTFS works great on XP you can't write to it on Mac... only read. And of course any Mac filesystem can't be read on a PC without 3rd party software.
Usually external disks come formatted for FAT32 so you should be good to go already. I know the Seagate I bought was already FAT32.
Usually external disks come formatted for FAT32 so you should be good to go already. I know the Seagate I bought was already FAT32.
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I was told that you can't use FAT32 on a mac because of some sort of partition issue.
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The only issue I am aware of with FAT32 is that you can't create files larger than 4GB.
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I had a similar problem with a External HDD I had, it had 2 partitions, 1 FAT32, 1 NTFS, OSX didnt like that fact, so I was forced to delete the partitions in windows and format the drive under OSX.
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