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Formatting my passport disk for both pc and mac

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Under Format, choose MS-DOS (FAT), then hit Apply to format the drive.Īfter that the Passport drive is formatted and it is able to read and write from Mac and PC. Under Options, choose Master Boot Record and hit OK,

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Select Partition, Under Volume Scheme choose 1 partition, You must back up all of the data to either your PC or MAC internal hard disk drive.įormatting the drive will erase all data.Īfter you have done backing up, connect the Passport drive to your Mac computer. If you allow Time Machine to configure the drive, all of your data will not be read or write from PC. Meaning if you try to copy a file size bigger than 4GB it will give you an error or not work. You can not use Time machine with the drive. The down side: the files size is limited to less than 4GB each.The up side: you can read and write to it from Mac and PC.

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If you are really, really want to do that you need to read these first: