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Using external hard drive from PC
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<blockquote data-quote="sfam198" data-source="post: 1362950" data-attributes="member: 204618"><p>OS X can read NTFS filesystems, it just can't write to them. If you don't want to get a 3rd party app involved (which I don't like to do if I can help it) you can copy the data on the external drive to your Mac, then reformat the drive as FAT (MS-DOS on the Mac) or HFS+ (the filesystem of choice on the Mac). Then just copy all your data back to the drive.</p><p></p><p>The filesystem you use will depend on whether you plan on ever using the drive with a Windows PC again. If so, use FAT (MS-DOS) just understand that it won't support files over 4 Gigabytes in size. If you only plan on using the drive with your Mac, go with HFS+.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sfam198, post: 1362950, member: 204618"] OS X can read NTFS filesystems, it just can't write to them. If you don't want to get a 3rd party app involved (which I don't like to do if I can help it) you can copy the data on the external drive to your Mac, then reformat the drive as FAT (MS-DOS on the Mac) or HFS+ (the filesystem of choice on the Mac). Then just copy all your data back to the drive. The filesystem you use will depend on whether you plan on ever using the drive with a Windows PC again. If so, use FAT (MS-DOS) just understand that it won't support files over 4 Gigabytes in size. If you only plan on using the drive with your Mac, go with HFS+. [/QUOTE]
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