How To Format External Hard Drives So They Work On Both Macs and PCs

Have you ever wondered how to format your external hard drive or SSD to work on both an Apple Mac and a Windows PC computer. Both computers use different operating systems (MacOS and Windows) and therefore you may want an external hard drive that is able to read and write files to both Apple computers and PCs. In this video we will show you how to format your external hard drive so it does just that.

In this video we will show you what file system you should select for your external hard drive (SSD or HDD). With all the different file formats out there (Fat32, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, and exFAT) what is the correct format you should select when setting up your new external hard drive or SSD? It's very easy and we will show what all these file formats mean and which format is best for what situation. If you are interested in learning about the hard drive formatting options on both Macs and PCs this video can help.

You will learn:
1). The Differences in all the file formats that you can use to setup your external hard drive or SSD.
2). How To Setup An External Hard Drive on a Mac
3). The correct File Format to select if you want to read and write files to both Apple MacOS and Windows using the same hard drive (or SSD).

You can use iBoysoft NTFS for Mac to seamlessly read and write to NTFS drives from macOS without formatting: iboysoft.com/ntfs-for-mac/?utm_source=Craig+Nei…

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