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How to format usb drive in mac book
How to format usb drive in mac book











In other words, you can access the drive and transfer data without any hassles.

how to format usb drive in mac book

If your disk was initially formatted to NTFS on a PC (or HFS+ on a Mac), most likely you’ll suffer limitations, for example, the data on your drive can’t be read or written on one of your computers.įortunately, there is a file system (actually two, I’ll explain) that you can format your flash drive to be fully compatible with Mac and PC. If you have a USB drive, and you plan to use it on both a Mac and PC, things can get a bit tricky here. By default, Macs are with HFS+ (since 2017 there’s a new Apple File System, APFS, optimized for flash storage), while PCs are with NTFS.

how to format usb drive in mac book

It’s no surprise that PCs and Macs do not work well with each other, due to differences between the two operating systems (Windows vs.













How to format usb drive in mac book