Hello again everyone. I recently purchased a new 500GB Seagate USB Powered External Hard Drive to use as portable storage as well as a second back-up location for my school files. However I have encountered an issue. I formatted the drive on my PC, but the computers we use in most of my classes are MACs. Every PC I plug into recognizes and allows me to add to the Drive, while every MAC I have tried only allows me to view the files on the drive already.

I assume this is because I formatted it on my PC, but would anyone know of a way I could get it working on both platforms?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Well, obviously the only thing you can do is transfer schools

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~RuneVillage Member #117~
~RuneScape Member Since September, 2001~

You have it formatted as NTFS. NTFS is windows File System that can be read on a mac but not written to. Your best bet would be to format your Hard drive as exFAT which allows read/write on both windows and OS X. I wouldn't recommend FAT32 as it has a 4GB transfer limit.

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Either way, exFAT is still much more modern, and if you can use exFAT, i would reccomend it.

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