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<blockquote data-quote="RTP" data-source="post: 388607" data-attributes="member: 25017"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>To be able to use the drive on both Windows and OSX you'll need to format it to the FAT filesystem.</p><p></p><p>You should do it on your Mac using Disk Utility (choose MSDOS format), because Windows doesn't let you format a single FAT partition bigger than 32GB.</p><p></p><p>Back-up your data before you format the disk - formatting it will erase everything on there.</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, you can partition the drive and have the different partitions formatted in different filesystems (e.g., one FAT, one HFS+, one NTFS, or whatever). If you search the forums you'll find a lot of discussions about this</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RTP, post: 388607, member: 25017"] Hi To be able to use the drive on both Windows and OSX you'll need to format it to the FAT filesystem. You should do it on your Mac using Disk Utility (choose MSDOS format), because Windows doesn't let you format a single FAT partition bigger than 32GB. Back-up your data before you format the disk - formatting it will erase everything on there. Alternatively, you can partition the drive and have the different partitions formatted in different filesystems (e.g., one FAT, one HFS+, one NTFS, or whatever). If you search the forums you'll find a lot of discussions about this [/QUOTE]
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