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Old 02-02-2009, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by yinglcs View Post
I have a new external hard drive. Can you please tell me what should I format the hard drive to so that I can read/write from Mac OS and Windows?

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You'll need to format it to FAT32. It is possible the drive came formatted that way. You can check the current format in Disk Utility. It will give you info of the existing format at the bottom of the screen.
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