Hard drive question, new to Mac

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ps2baseballps2baseball
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I recently bought a MacBook Pro, and am loving it. The one question I have is this - I want to buy a portable hard drive that I can use to transfer files back and forth from my MacBook to my PC. I want to be able to go in either direction, so it would need to read and write on both formats. Is there a drive that does this? What am I looking fro exactly?

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    You're looking for every drive ever made. Just format it FAT32. OS X and Windows can read/write that.
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    ps2baseballps2baseball Posts: 3member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    You're looking for every drive ever made. Just format it FAT32. OS X and Windows can read/write that.



    LOL. Thanks. Is that simple to do?



    I have been fooling around with my jump drive, and that appears to be able to read/write on both.
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  • Reply 3 of 6
    ps2baseballps2baseball Posts: 3member
    So, I found this one from Seagate. It says:



    Included NTFS driver for Mac

    Lets you interchangeably store and access files from PC and Mac computers without reformatting.



    Compatible with Mac and PC

    For flexible options and use with more than 1 computer (requires reformatting to HFS+ for use with Mac Time Machine software).





    Does this mean if I use it for Time Machine I will lose PC access? Because Time Machine would be great too.
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  • Reply 4 of 6
    futurepastnowfuturepastnow Posts: 1,772member
    Time Machine doesn't like to share. It wants a drive all to itself. However, you can divide a drive into multiple partitions, one for Time Machine and one for storage.
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    adomn1089adomn1089 Posts: 1member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


    You're looking for every drive ever made. Just format it FAT32. OS X and Windows can read/write that.



    ya you are right



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    Adomn

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    nvidia2008nvidia2008 Posts: 9,262member
    Quote:
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    ya you are right



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    Adomn

    Waste Water Treatment, Effluent Treatment



    ya you are spam
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