Hello, I am in need of an external hard drive. I have two Mac computers and two iPhones maxed out of storage. So I plan to go buy a external hdd. Here is the question. I have like 300gb of storage from a pc including photos, files, videos, I would like to put on the new hard drive. Will I need to format the new external hard drive for both pc and Mac?
I don’t need to view the data on pc anymore. But I want in all in one place.
Mac mini, macOS 10.13
The drive can be formatted as ExFAT (developed by Microsoft) and will
be readable by both macOS, Windows and Linux and does not have the FAT32
file limitations. Microsoft created this as a large file size/large volume
size improvement of FAT32 and an alternative to NTFS which is largely
proprietary and ExFAT is not.
The drive can be formatted as ExFAT (developed by Microsoft) and will
be readable by both macOS, Windows and Linux and does not have the FAT32
file limitations. Microsoft created this as a large file size/large volume
size improvement of FAT32 and an alternative to NTFS which is largely
proprietary and ExFAT is not.
You can also buy NTFS for Mac (https://www.paragon-software.com/us/home/ntfs-mac/) which has been a standard solution for Macs to formatting and reading/writing to/from NTFS volumes for years. For $20 it will make your world much simpler and easier if you want to use NTFS volumes with MacOS.
I want to take the the files off my old hard drive that I used with my pc and put them on my new hard drive. Then I want take all the photos, videos, and files off my two Mac computers and iPhones and put them all on the same hard drive. Aka “combine” them
Ok thanks, so as long as the individual files and folders are under 3gb which I don’t believe any are that large I can combine both my old pc hard drive and the new one I plan to buy?
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by “combine”?
Then this should work for you.
Hello,
You will find that you cannot format a disk to work with Macintosh and Windows and be able to work with large files. You can format an external hard disk as FAT32, which is supported on Macintosh and Windows however it would not support any files larger than 3 GB.
External hdd
