Or, better yet, XFAT which was designed to be used with flash storage.

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On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:02 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote:

> Or, since it's only 128 gb, you could format it fat32 and then both mac and 
> windows could write to it.
> 
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> 
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> On 2012-08-05, at 6:41 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> 
>> My thoughts exactly. It sounds like the file system in use is one the
>> mac can't modify, probably ntfs. When you reformat it in disk utility,
>> remember that all the data on the drive will be completely erased.
>> 
>> On 8/5/12, chris hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmmm could you have not formatted it using Disk Utility and set it to use
>>> the Mac OSX file system?
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