I'm not sure. When I bought the drive several years ago I only owned that Macbook Pro so it's quite possible I did. What would I need to do to make it recognizable by both? Then it probably formatted as HFS or HFS+ then. There are some free utilities that let you read HFS from windows but not write. OSX can read NTFS but not write. If you plan on regularly moving data back and forth paragon's NTFS on Mac or HFS on windows are highly regarded and fairly cheap. You only need one. There are a couple of file systems both can read but they don't handle 1Tb very gracefully. Edit: exFAT would work pretty well for you actually. My Passport for Mac portable external hard drive helps you protect your creative files with password protection, 256-bit AES hardware encryption and Apple Time Machine compatibility. Computers for video editing. But only if you have windows 7/8 and OSX snow leopard or newer. If you want to transfer files from a Mac to Windows PC and vice versa using an external portable hard drive then you have to have the external drive formatted in a file system both OS's can read and write too. Your choice is ms-dos (aka fat32) or exfat and I go over the difference in the video. 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 backward compatible with both OS's then you need to reformat it with fat32 or exfat. Please like, sub, share if you find this video helpful! FACEBOOK: INSTAGRAM: TWITTER: MY WEBSITE.
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