Hi, There should also be a choice in Disk Utility if you wish the drive to be Windows/Mac writeable, to format your drive in the XFAT format which allows for much bigger file size than FAT32 I think that the file size is something like 16 TB although I could be remembering incorrectly.
Later... MSDOS. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jan 29, 2015, at 15:13, David Griffith <daj.griff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It depends on whether you want the drive to be accessible to Windows PCs as > well. > If you are not bothered about Windows PCs then you can use the default Mac OS > Extended (Journaled). > > If you want to have both Windows and MacOs to have full read and write access > you need to format it as Ms\Dos which has I think a 4GB limit on individual > file size. > > An alternative is to get the NTFS add on from Paragon which extend the > ability of Mac OS to write as well as read NTFS partitions. > > David Griffith > >> On 29 Jan 2015, at 21:53, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How do I reformat a new ntfs external hard drive so I can use it on m;y Mac? >> >> Tha;nks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
