How to Format External Hard Drive for Mac & Windows (MS-Dos or ExFat?)

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If you want to transfer files from a Mac to Windows PC and vice versa using an external portable hard drive then you have to have the external drive formatted in a file system both OS's can read and write too. Your choice is ms-dos (aka fat32) or exfat and I go over the difference in the video. Note: most external drives you buy will automatically be formatted in NTFS which is a Windows file system. Macs can only read but not write to a ntfs file system. So if you want your external hard drive to be backward compatible with both OS's then you need to reformat it with fat32 or exfat. Please like, sub, share if you find this video helpful! Thank you. FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/ILUVTRADING INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iluvtrading/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/VirgilForex MY WEBSITE: http://gphonecenter.com

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  1. if you already have files on your external, are they lost by doing this?
  2. THANK YOU SO MUCH
  3. This a great worked perfectly
  4. thanks so much for specific instructions
  5. Hey i have a question cause I'm one of those people that use external hard drives to put movies on them, i just got a MacBook and i tried to add movies from my coworker's hard drive. It wouldn't let me put no movies on mines or Vice versa. Does both of our hard drives gotta be compatible to mac?? Or just one or them??
  6. Just a tip for your videos. Turn off that clicking sound
  7. Thank you so much, im new in the Mac system and you just saved me, thanks!