snow leopard and exfat

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snow leopard and exfat

hello,
im running mac osx 10.6.6 on my macbook i just wanted to know if i could create and read/write exfat formatted hdds.

also i have a mac running 10.5.X along with boot camp can they read the exfat hdd created by the macbook ??

Thanks in advance.

imac(2008), macbook(2010), Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 21, 2011 3:30 AM

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Answer 1

akash_rao94 Author

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Mar 21, 2011 7:20 AM in response to akash_rao94

P.S boot camp with Windows xp

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Answer 2

Kurt Lang

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Mar 21, 2011 9:04 AM in response to akash_rao94

im running mac osx 10.6.6 on my macbook i just wanted to know if i could create and read/write exfat formatted hdds.

Yes.

also i have a mac running 10.5.X along with boot camp can they read the exfat hdd created by the macbook ??

No. Only Snow Leopard supports exFAT.

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akash_rao94 Author

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Mar 21, 2011 11:38 PM in response to Kurt Lang

if i created boot camp on 10.6.6 with windows xp can the xp read the hdd ??

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Answer 4

Kurt Lang

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Mar 22, 2011 5:57 AM in response to akash_rao94

Yes, exFAT is supported back as far as XP. You'll need to download and install updates for XP while booted to it. Microsoft's exFAT page for XP is here.

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