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Media on Windows Ext drive usable on Mac?

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  • 14-08-2016 6:12pm
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    Gadgetman496
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    I have a 2TB external drive formatted to NTFS that I use for playing media on my Windows 7 machine. Will this drive work OK on a Mac or do Mac's require a different format?

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    davo2001
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    An NTFS disk will be read only on a MAC, so you will be able to copy stuff off it but not add to it.


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    jca
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    What file system do Mac use?


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    yoyo
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    jca wrote: »
    What file system do Mac use?

    HFS+ I believe. Windows cannot read or write to HFS+ without special software. Macs should at least mount Windows NTFS partitions as read only fine (not sure about writing to them).

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    jca
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    yoyo wrote: »
    HFS+ I believe. Windows cannot read or write to HFS+ without special software. Macs should at least mount Windows NTFS partitions as read only fine (not sure about writing to them).

    Nick

    Thanks for that.


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