Do I need an Apple flash drive or does any flash drive work for storage?

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texan01 Author

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Do I need an Apple flash drive or does any flash drive work for storage?

Can i interchange my flash drives that i have used for my PC with my new mac?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 21, 2011 12:41 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Sep 21, 2011 12:45 PM in response to texan01

Any work if properly formatted. OS X can read/write FAT formatted drives, but can only read NTFS formatted drives.

Windows cannot read/write any OS X formatted drive without third-party software such as MediaFour's MacDrive.

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Answer 2

Sep 21, 2011 3:08 PM in response to texan01

I have a Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista and an iMac running OSX 10.7.1 and all of my flash drives work fine with both computers. I often transfer items with them from both pc to mac and mac to pc.

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