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<blockquote data-quote="RavingMac" data-source="post: 1337319" data-attributes="member: 45350"><p>The answer is yes, if you reformat to FAT32, then it will be read/write ascessible by your work PC and your Mac, you will have a 4Gb file size limitation (which may or may not matter).</p><p>The other choice is to leave it as NTFS format and download 3rd party package for your Mac (Paragon is one source) which will allow your Mac to write to the drive. I don't have a reccomendation on that, as my old external drive is FAT32 and works well (even though I no longer have any Windows PCs in the house).</p><p></p><p>I believe there are 3rd party packages to allow your Windows PC to read/write Mac OS format (HFS) but I am not familiar with any of them. Preferable, in my opinion, to either format drive to FAT32 or get an NTFS driver for your Mac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RavingMac, post: 1337319, member: 45350"] The answer is yes, if you reformat to FAT32, then it will be read/write ascessible by your work PC and your Mac, you will have a 4Gb file size limitation (which may or may not matter). The other choice is to leave it as NTFS format and download 3rd party package for your Mac (Paragon is one source) which will allow your Mac to write to the drive. I don't have a reccomendation on that, as my old external drive is FAT32 and works well (even though I no longer have any Windows PCs in the house). I believe there are 3rd party packages to allow your Windows PC to read/write Mac OS format (HFS) but I am not familiar with any of them. Preferable, in my opinion, to either format drive to FAT32 or get an NTFS driver for your Mac. [/QUOTE]
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