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Windows also would recognize the new drive and ask you if you want to format it.Are you preparing to use the disk on another Mac or even Windows computer Click to tweet. Why not?Answer (1 of 10): Theoretically , All hard drives before use it should be formatted. File systems compatible with Windows include FAT32 and NTFS. For a Windows computer to be able to read a hard drive, it needs to have a file system format compatible with Windows. Be careful though, if you are using Disk Utility to format the drive, you should make. FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) by Disk Utility a filesystem originally released in 1977 and updated a few times since, lastly in 1996) really is the only cross platform filesystem that is going to work fully out of the box with Windows and Mac OS X.The default built-in Windows tool limits FAT32 to drives 32GB and under by default. What are my options?FAT32 has the best compatibility for Wii (32768 cluster size is optimal). The HFS and HFS+ file systems are not readable by Windows. For this reason, a Mac-formatted hard drive is not directly compatible, nor readable by a Windows computer. Though the file system of main system drive on Mac is confined to APFS and Mac OS Extended, you can still consider exFAT (or the older FAT) when you format an external hard drive on Mac.A hard drive formatted for use in a Mac has either an HFS or HFS+ file system.
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