You can choose this from the drop-down menu in Windows’ Format dialogue, or in the Erase pane of Disk Utility. To use your USB disk on both Windows and OS X, therefore, you’ll need to use a different filesystem. There are free drivers available, but again these are limited to read-only access. However, neither is suitable if you want to move files back and forth between Macs and PCs: OS X can read NTFS volumes, but it can’t write to them, while Windows in its default configuration can’t access HFS+ disks at all. These formats are sensible defaults because they support all the features of their respective operating systems, such as native compression and encryption. MacDrive is an extremely useful utility for moving large amounts of data between PC and Mac systems using external drives.If you follow the instructions above then Windows will, by default, format your disk using Microsoft’s NTFS filesystem, while a Mac might suggest the Mac OS Extended filesystem. You can even format Mac disks from the PC using MacDrive. When you plug in your USB drive the program will recognize it and add it to the list of available drives in the My Computer screen on your PC. MacDrive installs easily and provides transparent access to Macintosh volumes. The MacDisk trial is feature limited and will not copy entire files larger than 1MB. The MacDrive trial version is fully functional with a time limit of five days. Trial versions of both products are available from the companies' Websites. MacDrive is priced at $49.95 and MacDisk at $66.74.
MacDisk is a similar Windows utility for reading and writing to and from Mac-formatted disks. The program MacDrive is a Windows program that enables your Windows PC to read and write to Mac OS X disk drive formats. Is there a way to read the Mac OS X journaled file system disk from the Windows machine? NTFS won’t work because the Mac can’t write to it. We thought about reformatting the drive using the Windows FAT file system but many of the files to be shared are too large. Windows can't read the Mac-formatted drive. I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200GB of data that I need to transfer to a Windows machine.
I have an external USB drive formatted for Mac OS X with 200 GB of data that I need to transfer to a Windows machine.
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