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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 983622" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>You likely formatted it as a "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" partition in Disk Utility.</p><p></p><p>Windows doesn't read that partition type.</p><p></p><p>You have a few different options...</p><p></p><p>1. Get a driver for Windows that can read/write HFS+ (like MacDrive for Windows)</p><p>2. Format the drive using FAT32 (referred to as MS-DOS Format in Disk Utility), but do keep in mind that FAT32 is relatively low performance and can't handle single files larger than 4GB - but it is universally compatible, just don't try to format it that way on Windows since Microsoft imposes an artificial 32GB cap on FAT32 partition sizes.</p><p>3. Format the drive using NTFS on the Windows machine and get a driver for the Mac that can read/write NTFS (like Paragon NTFS for Mac).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 983622, member: 24098"] You likely formatted it as a "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)" partition in Disk Utility. Windows doesn't read that partition type. You have a few different options... 1. Get a driver for Windows that can read/write HFS+ (like MacDrive for Windows) 2. Format the drive using FAT32 (referred to as MS-DOS Format in Disk Utility), but do keep in mind that FAT32 is relatively low performance and can't handle single files larger than 4GB - but it is universally compatible, just don't try to format it that way on Windows since Microsoft imposes an artificial 32GB cap on FAT32 partition sizes. 3. Format the drive using NTFS on the Windows machine and get a driver for the Mac that can read/write NTFS (like Paragon NTFS for Mac). [/QUOTE]
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