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MacDrive is a great program that allows you to use Mac formatted disks on your Windows PC like a normal drive. If you use Macs and PCs heavily in your setup, it might be worth spending some money on a program called MacDrive.

So are there any other options? Well, thankfully yes. I’ve already written about how, if your external USB drive is not recognized by Windows, you might have to use the exFAT file format, which both Windows and Mac support, however, this requires formatting the drive and copying all the data back on.Īnother solution is to enable file sharing on your Mac and access files from Windows that way, but this requires a decent amount of setup. exFAT, on the other hand, is supported as of OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but you need drivers to read it on Linux.If you click Cancel, you’ll just get a message stating that the volume does not contain a recognized file system. NTFS is supported in Linux, but it requires a hack or third-party application to work on a Mac. Keep in mind though that FAT and FAT32 are the only file systems that are cross-platform compatible. It combines the benefits of FAT (small, fast) and NTFS (large file size supported) in a way that is perfect for flash drives. However, due to the way NTFS works it is not recommended for flash drives, even when they are bigger than 32 GB. In other words, any regular sized hard drive (60 GB +) should be formatted with NTFS.

better space management = less fragmentationĭue to its nature, FAT or better yet FAT32 are suitable for drives smaller than 32 GB and in an environment where you never need to store files larger than 2 or 4 GB, respectively.

create drive partitions larger than 32 GB.

less disk writing operations = faster and less memory usage.

compatible with virtually all operating systems.