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External Hard Drive File System for Mac

  • 21-09-2011 9:50am
    #1
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭


    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
    Talisman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,284 ✭✭✭Talisman


    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.


  • #3
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭Cork Skate


    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?


  • #4
    DubDJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭DubDJ


    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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