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How to use external hard disk in both Windows and Mac OS X?

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Mar 15, 202668794 views
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I have one external hard drive (Seagate 320 GB). I have used my hard drive in a Windows XP system and it works fine (Read and write). But when I used it on a Mac, I couldn't write any file on the disk and could read only. How can I use my external hard disk on Mac OS X (both read and write)?

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Fix for: How to use external hard disk in both Windows and Mac OS X?

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If you're running the latest version of OS X Snow Leopard, you should format your external drive using the exFAT file system. It is fully compatible with both Windows and OS X and gets past the many limitations of FAT32 (the most annoying of which iā€¦

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