![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to use FAT32 on a shared USB drive, use Mac OS X’s Disk Utility to erase and reformat a hard drive in what Disk Utility calls MS-DOS (FAT). FAT32 has some limitations: It can’t store files bigger than 4GB, you can’t boot a Mac from it, and it’s slow. ![]() It’s also the format that most USB flash drives use. There is a third format that both Mac OS X and Windows can read and write to natively: FAT32. If you’d prefer to save money-and if you’re adventurous-you can try two free programs: NTFS-3G for Mac OS X and MacFuse, which must be installed together. You can fix this by installing Paragon Software’s $32 NTSF for Mac OS X. OS X can read NTFS drives, but it can’t write to them. If the hard drive is formatted in the Windows NTSF format, it will mount on the desktop when you plug it into the Mac, but you won’t be able to copy files to it.
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