I had a similar problem with XFat, that’s why I suggested MSDos fat. When I put the drive on my air port extreme, not even my mac would see it. However, with MSDos fat it does.
God bless our troops and God bless America again. Jimmy Podsim. http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.podsim/ Yahoo messenger, jp.kd5...@att.net jp.kd5...@att.net On Jul 11, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Thuy Mallalieu <tmallal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. I tried formatting to xfat I can keep files that are bigger than 4 > gig in size, but when I connected the drive to a Windows machine, it didn't > recognise that the drive had been formatted properly. Is there something else > I need to do to make windows recognise the xfat format? > Cheers > Thuy > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 1 Jul 2014, at 09:25, "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> >> If your ambition is to have a drive with full read and write options for >> both Mac and Windows I would suggest that you use MSDos Fat 32. >> Windows will not be able to write to the Mac OS journal formatted drives >> whilst although the Mac will be able to read it will not be able to write to >> Windows NTFS drives without third party software support. >> >> I have an external MSDos FAT 32 drive precisely for the job of using on >> both systems. >> David Griffith >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net >> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of George Cham >> Sent: 01 July 2014 08:42 >> To: OS X & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Formating a external hard drive >> >> Hello Everyone, >> I know i asked this question before , but i can't find it in my archives nor >> is the mac-access archives easy to navigate. >> >> Ive just purchased a external hd with NTFS software for the mac. >> The manufacture says it will work on mac and windows. >> My Question is this , should erase the drive to work on the mac and windows >> using os extended journal ? >> George Cham >> george.c...@mac-access.net >> >> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that >> the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >> worm-free. 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