How to Set Up and Use a External Drive for Both Mac & Windows

In this video I show you how to quickly format your external drive, set it up and make it ready to use with both Mac OS and Windows PC simultaneously.

Step 1. Open "Disk Utility"
Step 2. Select the External Drive
Step 3. Select Erase
Step 4. Format Type select "ExFAT"
Step 5. Hit Erase and wait till process is complete
Step 6. Enjoy!

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Note:
Most external drives you buy will automatically be formatted in NTFS which is a Windows file system. Macs can only read but not write to a NTFS file system. So if you want your external hard drive to be able to read and write from Mac OS and Windows then you need to reformat it with ExFAT.

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