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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1568981" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>The Sony disk is formatted to NTFS which is a Microsoft proprietary file system. Your Mac can read from it but not write to it. So yes, you should format it with Disk Utility to the MacOS Journaled File System (HFS+). If you need to use the hard drive for both a Mac and a PC let us know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1568981, member: 46727"] The Sony disk is formatted to NTFS which is a Microsoft proprietary file system. Your Mac can read from it but not write to it. So yes, you should format it with Disk Utility to the MacOS Journaled File System (HFS+). If you need to use the hard drive for both a Mac and a PC let us know. [/QUOTE]
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