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  Formatting external drive for Mac & PC

  Posted by Ryan Hughes on May 12, 2010 at 5:16 pm

  Is there anyway to format an external hard drive (Iomega Prestige USB 1.5TB) to both read AND write on both a Mac and a PC WITHOUT a file-size limit? I formatted the drive on my PC and had no file-size limit, but I could not write files to it on a Mac. I formatted the drive on a Mac as MS-DOS and I had a file size limit of 4gb. Anyway around this?

  Jay Kilburn replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alan Lacey

  May 13, 2010 at 4:35 pm

  I’ve loaded NTFS-3G from https://www.tuxera.com/

  This freeware enables OSX to write to an NTFS formatted disc. It’s a bit slow, perhaps the full version is faster, anyway it works very well under my Leopard.

  Alan

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  Jay Kilburn

  June 15, 2010 at 4:34 pm

  There is a great free program called Macfuse which lets a Mac read and write to an NTFS drive. It works flawlessly and very quickly.

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