Recently purchased a macbook pro, my old external hard drive had to be formatted to be able to use mac. I want a portable 1tb hard drive that can work on both mac and pc without having to format it or any other nonsense. Obviously there are a few that are ridiculously priced but I'm looking to spend around. Recently purchased a macbook pro, my old external hard drive had to be formatted to be able to use mac. I want a portable 1tb hard drive that can work on both mac and pc without having to format it or any other nonsense. Obviously there are a few that are ridiculously priced but I'm looking to spend around £60-£70. You can use any USB flash drive on a Mac computer provided that it has been. If you have an old flash drive or one that was formatted to work with Windows. Disk Cloning & Disk Imaging An External Hard Drive Compatible With Both. Any suggestions? All portable hard drives will work with either Mac OS X and Windows. The actual hardware is completely compatible with both operating systems. The only difference is how it is formatted. You are unlikely to find a hard drive that comes pre-formatted to work with both operating systems. It's possible, but unlikely. Ordinarily, for a hard drive used only with Windows, the best filesystem to use is NTFS, but Mac OS cannot create or modify files on an NTFS drive (but it can access them). If you don't mind not being able to create or modify files on the Mac, you could buy an NTFS drive. For a hard drive used only with Mac OS X, the best filesystem to use is HFS+, but Windows does not support HFS+ at all and will not enable you to even view the files stored on the drive if it has an HFS+ filesystem. If you want the same drive to work completely with both operating systems, you need to format it with a FAT32 filesystem. Both Windows and Mac OS X (as well as practically anything else you could care to think of) can read and write files on a FAT32 filesystem. FAT32 has its disadvantages, because it is an old filesystem design, which is probably why it is no longer the standard filesystem that is found on pre-formatted hard drives. It is a bit of a downgrade from NTFS or HFS+. One limitation is that you cannot have an individual file larger than 4GB on FAT 32. An alternative method of sharing the files would be to use a network hard drive (a.k.a. Network attached storage, or NAS). But this is outside of your budget range. NAS units connect to a LAN and can be accessed from almost any operating system with full compatibility. The filesystem used on a network drive is irrelevant, because it is all 'abstracted away' by the network protocol used to access it. (Indeed, the filesystem used on a NAS unit is often a Linux one, which would be incompatible with both Mac OS X and Windows if you tried to connect it directly.
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