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How do I switch my Maxtor external drive from PC to Mac and back to PC?
I have a Maxtor one-touch external hard drive. I currently use it just as back-up storage for important files on my PC. But I also have a lot of video files saved on a friend's Mac. I'd like to move those files to a different PC (for work) and I was hoping to use the Maxtor drive to do it. How do I make sure it can go from one to the other successfully?
I'm willing to dump all the stuff on it right now if it's necessary to re-format it or something. But I'm not even sure how to go about re-formatting.
FAT32, got it. But how do you reformat the drive? Is there a way to do it from the Maxtor user-interface or do I have to use Windows administrative tools or something?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yeah doesn't Windows use the NTFS format?
Which is non-compatible with Unix type systems?
You could format it to FAT32 (Pretty sure that works with all unix systems) Then get the files from Mac, and place them onto Windows..
I'm pretty sure FAT32 works with Windows.. try it to make sure.. If not, you could make a private torrent file and share the files through the torrent protocol.
- 1 decade ago
The most universal filesystem that will work on Windows, Mac, and linux is the FAT32 filesystem. Format your external drive to FAT32 and you will be able to put files on the drive that you can access from any operating system.
