Hello all...
I just bought a new external 1TB Western Digital HD. I am trying to format it to FAT32 so that I can read AND write to it on my Mac. I have another external HD which is 750 GB which is FAT32....How can I format into FAT32?
Hello all...
I just bought a new external 1TB Western Digital HD. I am trying to format it to FAT32 so that I can read AND write to it on my Mac. I have another external HD which is 750 GB which is FAT32....How can I format into FAT32?
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FAT32 is limited to 256GB maximum (although later versions of Windows try to stop you formatting FAT32 partitions bigger than 32GB)
Can MacOS not read/write NTFS partitions? ... I know that quite a few Linux distros can do this nowadays.
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Mac OSX natively supports NTFS formatted disks since 10.4.1, so I highly recommend you format it with that and not FAT32. FAT32 is unstable and prone to bad fragmentation, and that is on smaller HDDs, so imagine on a 1TB drive. NTFS was designed from the ground up to be more robust, less likely to fragment, and much more stable.
I don't know if it has been changed since 10.4.1, but OSX couldn't format a disk to NTFS, only use them. So you will need to format the disk in Windows first.
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well I plugged my NTFS formatted drive into my Mac and it said read only?? Will see if I can do any updates...
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I seem to remember the NTFS support isn't enabled fully as standard in OSX and you have to enable it somewhere in the OS settings.
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You can download a freeware tool for Windows XP called "Fat32Format" that surpasses the arbitrary 32GB limit that XP's normal format enforces:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...32format.shtml
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A2000 - 68030/25, 4GB, 67MB
A4000 - Still needs work...
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Maybe create a partition that's around 10gb for transfer between windows/mac, then keep the rest of it NTFS? That's what i usually do and it seems to work fine...
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I can do file transfer fine...it's that I need to be able to edit tags and such on the songs that are there, I also need to be able to edit them in music software programs, so I need to have it stored in that way...if only Mac and Windows could get along in certain aspects...
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