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How to format a hard drive for both Windows and Mac

Posted on August 3, 2021August 27, 2023 By Jarvis

Here’s how to format your hard drive in either OS

Want to use one external drive for both your Windows PC and your Mac machine? One hurdle you’ll face is that, by default, these platforms use different filesystems. Windows uses NTFS while Mac OS uses HFS, and they’re incompatible with each other. However, you can format the drive to work with both Windows and Mac by using the exFAT filesystem.
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