Now you can take it to either Mac or PC to start writing to it.
EXTERNAL FLASH DRIVES FOR MAC MAC OS
If you right click on the drive (in Mac OS X) then click ‘Get info’ the "Sharing & Permissions’ caption states Under Format, choose MS-DOS (FAT), then hit Apply to format the drive.Īfter that the Passport drive is formatted and it is able to read and write from Mac and PC. Under Options, choose Master Boot Record and hit OK, Select Partition, Under Volume Scheme choose 1 partition, The speed at which you can read and write the data on these drives is the best of any competitor if there really is one. > and enables read and write access to your NTFS drives no matter what size. You must back up all of the data to either your PC or MAC internal hard disk drive.įormatting the drive will erase all data.Īfter you have done backing up, connect the Passport drive to your Mac computer. Running a Mac and having NTFS formatted external disks, you definitely need NTFS for Mac. If you allow Time Machine to configure the drive, all of your data will not be read or write from PC.
Meaning if you try to copy a file size bigger than 4GB it will give you an error or not work. You can not use Time machine with the drive.
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