![]() The old format was designed in 1978 as an 8-bit file system. It’s the oldest Microsoft file format originally developed for MS-DOS. FAT32įAT stands for File Allocation Table. Formatįrom the table above, you can see that two formats fully supported by macOS and Windows: FAT32 and exFAT. You just substitute external hard drive with USB flash drive, and the instructions will remain the same.īefore we make any irreversible changes, let me give you a quick overview of file formats supported in both systems. So let me show you how easy it is to format an external hard drive, so it works on both Mac and PC.īy the way, everything written here applies to USB flash drives as well. Probably, your external hard drive works on pc but not Mac. If you are reading this article, I bet you have the same problem. Windows responded cheerfully with a warning sound and displayed its famous “You need to format the disk in drive D: before you can use it. I copied files from Mac to my favorite Samsung T5 portable drive and plugged it into the PC. But yesterday, for some reason I needed to copy some files from Mac to a PC laptop. Typically, I use them for different purposes, so I never need to share data between computers. This has become a crusade for me and I would really like to find the solution to this puzzle! Thanks for all of the encouragement.I have multiple Macs and PCs at home. If anyone has any suggestions or tips feel free to advise me. Tomorrow I'm going to download some DOS bootable disk utilities I found tonight and see if I can get into the drives that way. ![]() It is odd that the Seagate HDD shows up in POST but that the WD HDD does not. Not only did the WD HDD not appear in the POST it did not appear in the OS system devices. I rescanned the system to try and find the HDD but no luck! Powered down and disconnected the Seagate HDD, connected the Western Digital HDD to my SATA 0 port and powered up. ![]() After the OS was up and running I checked the system devices and the Seagate HDD was not listed. ![]() During the OS load I could hear the Seagate HDD making "clicking" noises and the screen text reported that the drive was slow to respond, reporting an error. I booted up again and this time it saw the Seagate HDD as a IDE drive at port 0 during POST. By the way, during the POST (before I entered the BIOS) it listed the Seagate HDD as a SCSI HDD: ST3500312CS. I booted up and entered the BIOS, changed from AHCI to IDE on ports 0 thru 5, changed first boot device to USB HHD. Powered down, disconnected all of my SSD's & HDD's of my Windows 7 array an then connected the Seagate (ST3500312CS) HDD to my SATA 0 port and plugged in the power adaptor to the drive. Today I burned a bootable copy of Linux (Ubuntu) to my USB flash drive. ![]()
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