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External Hard Drive for Macbook

PrettyBoy · 2018-10-10 19:31:47

I've got a Toshiba 1TB external hard drive that I was originally using it with Windows laptop but when I changed to a Macbook. I found that it was not fully compatible with the Mac. I could see my files on the hard drive and drag them to the Mac but I couldn't drag files from the Mac to the hard drive. Google suggested…

10-10-2018 08:31PM

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PrettyBoy

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I've got a Toshiba 1TB external hard drive that I was originally using it with Windows laptop but when I changed to a Macbook. I found that it was not fully compatible with the Mac. I could see my files on the hard drive and drag them to the Mac but I couldn't drag files from the Mac to the hard drive. Google suggested that I had to format the hard drive to make it compatible.

I want to get one now that's compatible with the Macbook straight out of the box and I'll need to copy all of the files from the Toshiba 1TB hard drive I already have to it.

Is there any hard drive that is fully compatible with Windows and Mac computers straight out of the box with no need for formatting?

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#2 10-10-2018 08:43PM

mightyreds

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search amazon for external hard drive hfs+ , hfs+ is the file system mac uses although they are easy enough to format if you do get stuck

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