Will An External Hard Drive Work On Both My Mac And PC ?

@joosh00 (121)
April 3, 2009 6:32pm CST
Well, Im Thinking Of Buying An External Hard Drive And I Was Just Wondering If It Would Work With Both My Macbook and My PC. Thanks :D
3 responses
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
4 Apr 09
yes, it will work, but you need to make sure of the format of the external drive. Windows uses either FAT32 or NTFS. Mac OS X uses Mac OS Extended also known as HFS+... check this site, so that you will know more on what you should do when you are choosing one: http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/1-external-hard-drive-for-your-mac-and-pc
@joosh00 (121)
4 Apr 09
Thanks For The Link :)
@kingpong (166)
• Philippines
4 Apr 09
It depends. You need to make sure to that you format your External drive with a file system that both computers use otherwise one of your computers will not be able to read the external HDD
@joosh00 (121)
4 Apr 09
Thanks :).
• United States
4 Apr 09
Yes, usually external hard drives are cross platform, which means they can be used on Macs or PCs.
@joosh00 (121)
4 Apr 09
Thanks.e