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External Hdd Formatting To Fat32
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<blockquote data-quote="TheInvsbleMan" data-source="post: 455961" data-attributes="member: 32183"><p>Kinda random here but I just had to back up my 500GB external to some internal drives on my PC so I could format it to work with my Mac (it WAS NTFS) I can't live with the 4GB file size limit so I knew I needed to go with HFS, and I don't use my PC anymore anyways, so I backed it all up using Firewire 800, it took maybe a little over an hour. I then formatted it on my Mac. Now I knew I would need the data back off the PC onto the 500GB but I didn't think and realized that wait a sec Windows can't write to HFS. So I had to take almost 300GB of stuff and transfer it from the PC to the external drive through the wireless network connected to my MBP. Wow let me tell you, it took over 22 hours to transfer it all back haha.</p><p></p><p>But anyways it all went well, just thought I would share that funny story with yall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheInvsbleMan, post: 455961, member: 32183"] Kinda random here but I just had to back up my 500GB external to some internal drives on my PC so I could format it to work with my Mac (it WAS NTFS) I can't live with the 4GB file size limit so I knew I needed to go with HFS, and I don't use my PC anymore anyways, so I backed it all up using Firewire 800, it took maybe a little over an hour. I then formatted it on my Mac. Now I knew I would need the data back off the PC onto the 500GB but I didn't think and realized that wait a sec Windows can't write to HFS. So I had to take almost 300GB of stuff and transfer it from the PC to the external drive through the wireless network connected to my MBP. Wow let me tell you, it took over 22 hours to transfer it all back haha. But anyways it all went well, just thought I would share that funny story with yall. [/QUOTE]
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