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External Hard Drive File System for Mac

Cork Skate · 2011-09-21 09:50:36

Folks, does anyone know what file system an External Hard Drive needs to be for a Mac? I have tried to format it (on an XP machine) with FAT32 but its saying that "The volume is too big for FAT32" (its 2TB) Anyone have any ideas?

21-09-2011 10:50AM

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Cork Skate

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Folks, does anyone know what file system an External Hard Drive needs to be for a Mac? I have tried to format it (on an XP machine) with FAT32 but its saying that "The volume is too big for FAT32" (its 2TB)

Anyone have any ideas?

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#2 21-09-2011 11:36AM

Talisman

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You can format it in OS X with Disk Utility choosing MS-DOS (FAT) as the file system if you want to use it with Windows and OS X.

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#3 21-09-2011 03:01PM

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Talisman wrote: »

You can format it in OS X with Disk Utility choosing MS-DOS (FAT) as the file system if you want to use it with Windows and OS X.

Is there no way i can do this from a Windows XP machine?

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#4 21-09-2011 03:25PM

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OP this is a good little post over at TUAW.com which explains the ins and outs of File systems for Mac OSX.

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