where’s the disk utility? at this time Idon’t have a windows computer but that doesn’t mean I never will and if there’s something like fat available, I should probably go for that. > On Jan 29, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > 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.
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