sonicspeed720 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 i have an external hard drive, and windows/mac on my computer. though, i'm unsure which format is best. i have a few files that are more than 4 GB that i would like to put there and i have the third party programs that will let me read/write ntfs from mac and read/write hfs+ from windows...but i don't know which format is best for this external one...advice? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81123-external-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
putzi Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 my 2 cents: both choices have pros and cons, if you choose NTFS, beware not to use disk utility to repair drives from within macOS, it might corrupt the file system irreversably! if you choose hfs+, stay away from macdrive for windows, it messed up my whole installation once. i guess the safest is to have a linux distro installed as well with ntfs and hfs+ tools Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/81123-external-hard-drive/#findComment-604092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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