Best Format To Use For Mac And Pc
Best way to format a External HDD for Mac and PC use? Okay this is a slightly complex thingy here, but here goes. I'm getting (in the post) a 250gb Maxtor HDD External for use with University computers (doing a lot of Video editing and downloading of stuff with the 1gig per sec internet connection or something) anyway I want to format it so it can be used by both mac and PCs. My mate say FAT is a no go, and I thought it could only be used with drives up to the size of like 32Gb, anyway through I maybe wrong and that might just be Windows 95/98. My friends suggest the use of which I have brought and installed, but I was wondering has anyone else had any kind of similar problems with doing the same thing and how they fixed it. I had the same problem but found a roundabout solution with no extra software (using Panther).
I just got two Western Digital 3TB external hard-drives. I want to be able to use them on both Mac & PC. When i go to format it on my Mac, FAT32 is not an option, and every time i try exFAT i also get an “error: Invalid Option”. Oct 13, 2017 - If you have a USB drive, and you plan to use it on both a Mac and PC, things can get a bit. How to Format Your USB Flash Drive to exFAT?
(1) from the gui diskutils in panther set up a Mac OS (Extended) volume (2) run the disk utility from command line in panther as 'diskutil eraseVolume MS-DOS /Volumes/' (3) go back to the gui diskutils and erase the entire disk (not just the volume) as MS-DOS (now an option after running the command line diskutil). This works - You have to do step three to get the FDisk partition scheme for the PC to recognize.. Sweet storing and swapping.. Hi, I have been looking everywhere trying to find a genuine solution to this problem. I've tried this method - everything worked great. That is until I plugged the external drive back into my PC.
What happens every time is when I format using Mac OS X, I get a good solid format in FAT 32, but when I put the drive into the PC, everything shows up great like it's working, except no drive letter. Then when go to manage the disk drives, I see it (Drive 2 on my PC) but it shows up as unallocated space, which means all I can do is reformat it. Back to square 1.
Anyone know a way around this? Is there simply no way to format an external drive to work with both PC and Mac? Right - I know about how the Mac views the NTFS. The issue I think is that even though my PC is supposed to be able to use a hard drive that is formatted using FAT 32, it does not seem like this is the case. I have been using Computer management. What do you mean by initialize? The PC sees the drive, but all 120GB of it are listed as 'unallocated'.